Quotes About Growth

Je voyage, je me cultive, me transforme ! Mon corps est façonné par une nourriture qui n'est pas la vôtre, mon cerveau s'imprègne de lectures qui ne sont pas les vôtres, je me fabrique, je m'éloigne de vous, et vous n'y pouvez rien. Restez en contact si vous le souhaitez mais sachez que, de toute manière, vous m'avez perdue. Chaque fois que vous me reverrez, je serai méconnaissable. Inconnaissable.

The truth is that all of us have multiple identities -- if only because all of us were children once, then teenagers, and are these things no longer, yet are them still.

The Louisiana Territory, as he envisioned it, would encourage agriculture and forestall the growth of manufacturing and urban poverty

Where did the bonds of maternity end? All children grew up, changed, became somebody else. Parents who trembled that they might lose a gap-toothed toddler to some terrible accident ended up losing him anyway, always, to time. The toddlers died, after all, and what was left was a bond with another adult, who had once been the beloved child.

On good days I felt like a chrysalis from which a butterfly had emerged, and on bad days I felt like a chewing-gum wrapper someone had thrown in the hedges.

Ours is an active faith. It is made alive and appealing only when our nouns turn into verbs.

A medida que camines en unión y comunión con Él se despedirá una dulce fragancia y crecerá un delicioso fruto; la fragancia y el fruto del su Espíritu. Tu serás bendecida; otros serán bendecidos. Y es todo, todo, todo para el Amado.

The older we get, the bigger the catalog of failures Satan can throw in our faces. You may think, 'I don't have anything to offer.' But you can teach out of your failures as well as your successes (p. 223).

Honor the space between no longer and not yet.

We stay in the same old situations because we're comforted by the familiar, even if the familiar is terrible.

It's only through facing the truth that you will be able to fulfill your potential and live the life you were meant to live. It's only by jumping that you will be able to fly.

let's say you think you're committed to starting your own business. But your underlying commitment is actually to stay safe and small right where you are. Even as you make efforts to start your own business, some part of you is sabotaging those efforts and ensuring you fail.

When we change and grow into new versions of ourselves, we have to tolerate a lot of uncertainty.

Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.

Our expectations and hopes were for something else, but He knew exactly what we needed to be stretched and changed. And, thus, we need to lay even our hopes and expectations on the altar.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

I will admit that "just Jane" seems to gain insight from hard times. I wish to ask the Almighty about this, for why do we learn more from struggles than victories?

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

Africa at the start of the twentieth century, Christians were only 9 percent of the population; today they are 44 percent.

South Korea now has five of the world's ten biggest churches.

More Chinese attend church each Sunday than are members of the Communist Party.

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

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