Quotes About Growth

Todos nos contamos una historia sobre nosotros mismos. Siempre. Continuamente. Esa historia es lo que nos convierte en lo que somos. Nos construimos

It had the look of an ambitious architectural breed of lichen that was trying to cover as many acres as it could.

Der Tag, an dem wir beginnen, uns Gedanken über die Zukunft zu machen, ist der Tag, an dem wir unsere Kindheit hinter und lassen.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.

You see, a laurel needs to grow. I can't do much about that. But I can keep the rain off a few musicians heads, can't I?" A sly smile wound it's way onto his face. "So God will tend the laurels and keep them wet. And I will tend the players and keep them dry. And wiser minds than mine will decide when to bring the two together." -Count Threpe

But he did decide vegetatively, as a bean when once tossed aside must decide if it ought to germinate or had better let things be.

talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

stones, even, are smoother for the dust.

Change isn't without cost, and maturity is deepened by hardships.

Gratefully, I've lived long enough to know that if I can own my failures, others won't struggle with them either.

God's seeds of hope are often sown by people and books.

I've watched the Lord press seeds into the sometimes resistant soil of my heart that I might grow out of myself and become more like Him. Sometimes he does the planting alone in the night, when it's just Him and me. But usually God uses others to plant and water the hope that I can do exceedingly more through Christ than I ever dreamed.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

As Nick Ellis (2009: 153) put it, 'The language calculator has no "clear" button.' In learning something new, we build on what we already know.

Many of us are metaphorically standing in a ring of fire. The assaults of life have pushed us through a wall of fire and here we are, standing in the middle of a circle of flames. The conundrum we face in the circle is: would we rather spend the rest of our lives very uncomfortable, hot and singed, or do we have the courage to walk through the wall of flames again, experiencing a short burning sensation, to freedom from fire? The benefits of being

Out of all the piles of dirt, garbage, and shit we have been handed, we can grow a patch of daisies.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

In time we often become one with those we once failed to understand.

I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.

All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms.

We want thing we cannot have. We seek to reclaim a certain moment , sound, sensation. I want to hear my mother's voice. I want to see my children as children. Hands small, feet swift. Everything changes. Boy grown, father dead, daughter taller than me, weeping from a bad dream. Please stay forever, I say to the things I know. Don't go. Don't grow.

We promised that we'd never leave one another again, until we both knew we were ready to stand on our own. And this vow, through everything we were yet to go through, we kept.

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.