Quotes About Growth

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

Sketchbooks and journals are the street lamps that illuminate the artist's journey.

I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream

experience was not yet my friend

I'd rather keep changing and lose people along the way. If that's the price, I'll pay it.

I think we believed that what we'd achieved acamically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.

Years had passed, but we were still arguing about the same stuff. These patterns repeat themselves, with parents and children—that's another reason I went to India. If I was going to have a family, I wanted it to be totally different from the one I'd had.

Charlie and I both felt very adult that last year of college, very experienced: I think we believed that what we'd achieved academically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.

Children always grow faster than their parents' image of them.

Calm yourself. Calm yourself . . . " In time I do, and I move forward.

Lesson learned? Essential lesson learned! You can erase what you draw, even what you've spent a long time drawing and sweating over it. You can throw away what you paint and, as I learned to do later, cut it up and incorporate it into a new painting. A lesson to take straight to heart, and not only in art making.

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

How you doing at 26 Fed?" "I'm growing and learning, meeting new challenges with confidence and enthusiasm while developing good work ethics and people skills." "I'm surprised they haven't fired your ass." "Me too.

Forget the past.

There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

I never lose, I either win or learn

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.

n Mens het letterkunde in jou lewe nodig, want daarsonder gaan jy agteruit.

Men have different capacities and react differently to stress. But the stronger ones raised up the weaker ones, and both became stronger in the process.

Difficulties break some men but make others