Quotes About Growth

If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that's success for me.

You are what you are, until you decide to be different.

Guys are like dogs. You wish you could take them all home when they're young. But after they've howled all night and slobbered all over everything, you come to realize the ones already trained are much easier to live with.

Women typically go through four developmental stages; 1. Gotta get a man. 2. Gotta get a house. 3. Gotta get a kid. 4. Gotta get a life. Stage four is commonly referred to as the change of life, or the clinical term men-on-pause.

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

Step so far outside of your comfort zone that you can't find your way back.

It was now the second week in March and the time of tender growth, when it slowly dawned on people that the world would not always be cold and brown. This high-level country was like something unexpectedly and suddenly loved and responding to the bounty of young rain and long hours of sunlight. Awake, awake, ye drowsy sleeper.

Don't get mad, get smart

Confidence comes with mastery, and the combination enables me to reach new heights.

Khaemwaset's eyes remained on the riverbank as the green confusion of spring glided by. Beyond the fecund, brilliant life of the bank with its choked river growth, its darting, piping birds, its busy insects and occasionally its sleepy grinning crocodiles, was a wealth of rich black soil in which the fellahin were struggling, knee-deep, to strew the fresh seed.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

An artist must either give up art or develop. There are, of course, two ways of giving up: stopping altogether or taking the familiar Hollywood course - making tricks out of what was once done for love.

Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.

Life is a journey not a destination, so journey it!

Past is a place of reference not a place of residence.

Everyone feels that way, that we will never stop loving someone, that we will never love anyone else, that we can never feel more than we do right now, but yet... we do, somehow, stop loving. We do get over it. Don't we? We have to. We must. Otherwise, how could we go on?

Tania." Her voice was soothing. "There is a second love. And a third love. And if you're lucky, a fourth and a fifth, too.

the days of the young, when they gulped the air and lived to see the better world, the grown-up world, when they could not wait for the days to end so that they could get on with the rest of their lives.

I think you kept three credits, consciously or subconsciously, so that you could hang on to something, hang on and not move forward. I think you want to feel that you're still unfinished." She wanted to tell her grandmother that she was still unfinished. Unfinished, unanswered, unformed.

What was the point of falling in love if you stayed exactly as you were?

God on high, hear my prayer. Don't give me an easier life. [...] Make me a stronger man.

Cuando se vive mucho tiempo, se aprenden muchas cosas

La lucha no termina sólo porque ya conozcas el camino. Eso es sólo el principio.

People don't change, Esther" said Harry "Leaves change