Quotes About Growth

The secret of keeping a journal is seeing it as a draft, a stepping-stone, a process.

We are the sum total of our memories. Memories are the most precious things we have. Good or bad. That's what make us who we are. What would we be without them?

But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore ...

Life doesn't hang around, it keeps moving and if you don't keep up you can lose things.

But, you know, everytime your heart is broken, it gets stronger.

With endings come new beginnings.

I don't want to spend whatever time I have left looking backwards. I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I'm just living a life where a part of me is missing.

Remember that, love. When life buries us under all its heartache and disappointment, think about a seed. It needs to be buried in order for it to grow. That's how the magic happens. But you have to have faith. Remember that. Patience and faith.

Don't worry about getting older, worry about becoming dull.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

When life buries us under all its heartache and disappointment, think about a seed. It needs to be buried in order for it to grow. That's how the magic happens. But you have to have faith. Remember that. Patience and faith.

I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I'm just living a life where a part of me is missing.

Nature teaches you to have patience and faith. Life's just a cycle, you know. Things might seem dead, but they always come back to life . . .

Don't worry about me. I'm going to learn to be happy.

Move your feet in the direction that is most favorable for your living up to your full potential.

What we love we grow to resemble. SAINT BERNARD T

The little troubles and worries of life, so many of which we meet, may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping stones to a noble character.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

If you meet life squarely, you are likely to make mistakes, do things you wish you hadn't, say things you wish you could retract or phrase more felicitously, and, in short, fumble your way along. Those "mature" people whose lives are even without a single sour note or a single mistake, who never fumble, manage only at the cost of original thought and original action. They do without the successes as well as the failures.

I'm nearly thirty, and up to now I've lived as the grass grows. What terrible emptiness! Nothing but selfishness and indifference to others. I must pull myself up before it is too late. Ivan Ilich Telegin.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.