Quotes About Growth

Sometimes the only antidote for pain is more of it.

Places change us, don't they? Sometimes more than we can even guess.

Maybe we are always all of our ages at once, like nesting matryoshka dolls?

Getting your heart broken is the privilege of being human.

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

You're making something new. Don't forget that when it starts to hurt.

That's the problem with going into the world, isn't it? You actually have to face things you find you don't want to know.

Can anyone tell you when you're grown up?" Another

After years of pelting me with advice and restrictions, Emma had nothing left to say now. Nor did I. I could barely remember why I had fought her so much. She seemed just as lost as I was.

Only trouble sticks to me with any regularity…but I'm learning to think that can shape a person, too.

nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend. I

You know, they don't hand out manuals for the tough stuff," he said as the band slowed. "I haven't always known what to do as a father, but somehow you've turned out all right." Before

Or perhaps I'll learn the difference between a boy's dreams and a man's." He paused, and then said, "When I marry, my father will live again in my sons." He

The games had prepared Ruta for his future, and should have prepared me for mine, too. The manoeuvres had become riskier and more difficult, but maybe each was the same when you got down to it. Jumping had taught me how to jump, hadn't it? I only had to look at Ruta to know he wasn't a child any more. Neither was I. The

What was more exciting than that? I could love him like crazy and work very hard to understand and support him, but I couldn't be fresh eyes and a fresh smile after five years. I couldn't be new.

Swahili phrase he'd challenged me with years before, "A new thing is good, though it be a sore place.

At Equator Ranch a decade before, his debut lambing had turned out only six surviving animals of four thousand ewes. Undaunted, he had burned through more of his inheritance (eighty thousand pounds, some claimed), replaced his stock, learned his hard lessons, and was now the most successful large-scale rancher in all of Kenya. Not

it's not what happens to us that matters most, but how we can learn to carry it.

In exchange for Pegasus's stall and my own bunk, D gave me two horses to train. They were both past their prime, dull eyed and recalcitrant, but I was trying to prove myself. I would have to treat them like royalty. I laboured over their exercise and feeding schedules, filling notebooks, trying to meet them on their own territory, and to find or understand something untapped in them, something no one had yet seen. Dynasty,

After a year of fumbling and embarrassing encounters with Jock, I was finally learning what sex was, and that I liked it. Boy would come into my cottage at night and wake me by roughly pressing against me, his hands everywhere before I was fully conscious.

Beginnings are important, too, darling. You should be patient with life.

Arap Ruta indeed. I had known him since he wasn't

because you can't chart a course around anything you're afraid of. You can't run from any part of yourself, and it's better that you can't. Sometimes I've thought it's only our challenges that sharpen us, and change us, too—a

Each object was the same as it had been—but the air all around felt different. I was different.