Quotes About Growth

Look, I know Mom talks about the big picture. She wants you to remember that you'll find new friends, that life is always changing, sometimes in really good ways. But life is also what's happening now, Georges.

Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.

But who has time to write memoirs? I'm still living my memoirs.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

with her ex and didn't want to be

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul —Mark Twain

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10 20, 30 years.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

From the time they hit middle school, they start moving away from home. They are not doing anything wrong; it's just the way they are made. They are becoming independent, and they begin redefining themselves through the eyes other people who are not in their immediate family. The older they get, the more important it is to have other voices in their lies saying the same things but in a different way.

Church has believed that parents probably wont' assume responsibility for their own children's growth, so they have tried to become a parent substitute. This in turn ha s fostered parents to adopt a "drop-off" mentality. Maybe the greatest gift a church can give parents is the confidence and courage to do what God has wired them to do.

If you want small group leaders to make a weekly investment in kids, then you need to make a weekly investment in small group leaders.

People change when the pain associated with the status quo is greater than the pain associated with the change.

In everyone's story of faith, there are people who have shown up and become catalysts for their spiritual growth. Think about it. If you are reading this right now, chances are you believe what you believe and you do what you do because of the way someone influenced your faith.

And one of your most challenging tasks as an SGL is learning to accept and manage the tensions that come up in group.

coming to terms with things as they are, with an awareness of how they have been, in order to feel, think, speak, and behave in ways that are increasingly inclusive, integrated, and balanced.

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

don't you forget that those stinky smells have a purpose. Without the barnyard, there'd be no bacon. Without the fertilizer..." He waved his hand over the garden before turning again to Matthew. "Don't be afraid to deal with the mess, son. The sweetest moments come from the most offensive fertilizer.

But never close the door. As long as she has breath, she can change.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.

We all march to the drum,"she murmured."However we are raised, however we are trained, it never seems to leave us. Do you think we can break free?" . . . "We can all learn,"he answered."All grow and change. That choice is ours to make.

You know a lot of things, Uncle,' Gillian said, patting him on the shoulder as if he were a noble steed. 'Learned form books,' Clay promised her. 'You'll know as much once you read more of them. In fact, you'll know more than I do, because new books are always being written.

In other words, our spiritual journey occurs not in spite of the ambiguous and problematic experience of our actual life but because of it.

I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.