Quotes About Growth

In order to grieve—I needed to "unlearn" the way I learned to ignore my agony.

I never learned how to process my own pain.

Thomas just nodded his head in agreement, and then suggested I write a letter to myself as a child and address those painful issues.

When I stopped seeing Thomas, he told me that I would be "recovering" for the rest of my life.

It is my experience that you must heal in order to forgive.

Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down. —Kobi Yamada

Nurturing family relationships were outside my realm of experience.

How do you "re-parent" yourself? Even if you know how to parent someone else—that doesn't mean you know how to parent yourself.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wish we had.

A lesser known Stoic writer, Hierocles, visualizes a series of extended, concentric circles with the self at the center. "To be at home" in the world requires striving to bring the outermost circles toward the center.

We walked single file around the lake, inhaling the unmistakable smell of life poised and ready - fish stirring under the ice, green bulbs awakening below the ground. Soon the water would be free, the leaves would unfold like handkerchiefs, the flowers swell with pollen, the butterflies return. The risks of spring were still trapped under the ice but one good thaw and they would be released.

it's good to know where you want to be, but sometimes you have to go in the opposite direction to get there.

How odd it was, Eleanor thought, to have grown children who've become people you don't really know.

so you won't see anything spectacular for a while. There's mostly farmland

having children seems to demand a completely different level of courage

How odd it was, Eleanor thought, to have grown children who've become people you don't really know. Or maybe it was this way only in her family.

It is not a lonely feeling, but just as I am always sad to close the cover on a book, I feel I have finished with this part of my life and will have to begin a new book.

premier firm in Seattle. Seeing his pre-teen scrawl should have made him smile at his young self.

When Evan Chance read the bucket list he'd penned when he was twelve years old, he caught a glimpse of the man he'd wanted to be when he grew up. Now, at nearly thirty-five, he knew he was not that man.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how.

The more you read, the more you will find your thoughts and conversation reflecting your reading, and the more you will want to read.

We often think contentment is something that happens to us, rather than something that we take pains to learn.

When we displease our Father in heaven, we don't feel like we are His children. But once we confess our sins and receive forgiveness, our assurance returns and our faith grows.