Quotes About Growth

Ihmiset eivät opi paremmiksi, varovaisemmiksi vain.

Joskus minua ihan nolottaa, miten edellä olen muita.

Vaikeinta on unohtaa oppimansa, olla taas tavallinen.

Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.

The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.

I want to grow a flower for every time someone tells me F*** you." Then I'll go back to that person and pin the flower on their lapel in a gesture of friendship. And while they are looking down on it in astonishment, I'll bunch up my knuckles and punch them in the face.

I've often wondered what makes a relationship last. I guess the best answer is it's the one right after the next to the last one.

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.

Every API writer needs to have an evolution plan; that is, to know on a strategic level what will happen to the API in future releases.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

the quality of the mothering we receive so powerfully shapes our development.

As it relates to healing the wounds of trauma, it is a journey from helplessness (which is the essence of trauma) to mastery.

Our goal is to move from being stuck in survival mode back into blossoming and into life. We want to thrive, not just survive.

When we heal from trauma, what was shattered becomes whole again. We learn to claim aspects of self that got lost or frozen and integrate these with our growing capacities. Part of this will involve a new identity that grows out of this process. As we recognize our resources and our wholeness, a new me is born, one whose sense of value has been restored.

Cognitively oriented therapists believe that we contribute to our own suffering by holding on to outdated beliefs and conclusions that keep us stuck in a particular story.

Connecting to our own pain and the unique reality of our lives is a large part of the journey to spiritual maturity.

Desire and passion can't live forever. Feelings change just as you change, as you grow older.

I tell her I won't [forget who I am], even though I'm still trying to figure it out.

Nicky: "19' s probably your last good year. It's all downhill from there...

Wisdom isn't taught; it's not a science. Wisdom is a tattoo carved into the mind after a lifetime of failures and achievements.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

The desire to become a different sort of person is precious. It rarely happens to us. But one way it can happen is if someone we admire sees in us a better sort of person than we presently are. And praise it, until it comes into being. This is finally what church is for. It is what reading the Bible is for: becoming a different sort of a person. The sort of person the church calls a saint.