Quotes About Growth

The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.

We must all learn the measure of our strength. Otherwise we exhaust ourselves striving for that which we can never gain.

We are none of us one thing alone and unchanging. We are not static, or at rest. Just as a city or a prince's court or a lineage is many people in one, so is a person many people within one, always unfinished and always like a river's current flowing onward ever changing toward the ocean that is greater than all things combined.

We don't have to accept the things we might change.

You're not afraid to take risks." "Neither are you, Diana. Don't ever lose that quality. Once a person stops pushing and growing, she is as dead in the spirit as if she were dead in the flesh.

Never begrudge the seed you sow in good soil, for it is the harvest that comes from that sowing that will determine whether you live or die next spring. Think not only for this day, but for the one that is to come.

And once you saw the world from three, or five, different roads, the view was never the same. The map changed and altered, and its details became more accurate. The landmarks receded or grew, depending on the angle from which you observed them, and at once, there might be an escarpment from which the astonished traveler would rendezvous with her selves and could suddenly comprehend the land as it truly was.

If we stay as we have been, then we will die, just as a pool dries up in the summer if there is no rain. We must change if we want to live. But we must also remain who we are and who the gods gifted us to be.

It is not in victory that you learn how strong you truly are.

She's read many books.

Had she been broken and healed all awry, like a bone that had not been properly set?

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savoring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch. Cerulean, azure, blue. Shadowy, sombre, secret. Voluptuous, sensuous, amorous. Kiss, hiss, abyss. Some words sounded dangerous. Pagan. Tiger. Some words seemed to shine. Crystal. Glissade. Some words changed their meaning as I grew older. Ravishing.

But it's better to loosen up as you go or you risk turning brittle.

You are made who you are by the bad stuff, the little things, as much as the great triumphs and big decisions.

Life is just a process to figure out who we are.

What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom.

We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.

And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

To have been always what I am; and so changed from what I was

Do you think we are truly ever old?" she says. "I mean, inside ourselves, old? Ready to be old?

But you can't sit around waiting for a mentor to find you. You have to search for them, and that may mean looking beyond your immediate department or area. Your

You want to be sure you're working for someone who will advocate on your behalf and isn't going to try to keep you in your same old spot—out

If you've just had a brief conversation at an event, ask, "Is it all right if I drop you a note?" You can follow up with a question in writing. Also, periodically send your potential mentor or sponsor information that she will find insightful. When you have an accomplishment under your belt, let her know about it.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.