Quotes About Growth

Education is not about scoring an A grades as you may think always, education is about acquiring Wisdom and Knowledge with full scale implementation. That's why I am educated ever.

You can't have true love if it does not blossom in your heart.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

You often take two steps backward to take one step forward.

You often take two steps backwards to take one step forward.

I felt in this new adventure I was rousing to life again. I was a butterfly, newly emerged from the chrysalis, damp winged and trembling with expectation.

It's a comfortable place, mediocrity. Never pushing oneself to the limit to see what you can take. Never staring down your fears, never reaching into yourself to find that last bit of courage. You don't even know what it is that you're made of-and what's more, you seem distinctly uninterested in finding out.

And when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. —Closed Path Rabindranath Tagore

Lonesome is habit," she said with a shrug. "One that can be broken.

I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been and the person I was finally becoming. Caught between the two of them, I felt rather lonely, as one often does with a new acquaintance.

It's a comfortable place, mediocrity. Never pushing oneself to the limit to see what you can take. Never staring down your fears, never reaching into yourself to find that last bit of courage. You don't even know what it is that you are made of

Some things are purified and strengthened by trial, others destroyed.

There are no words to touch it for conjuring. It is the beginning of blooming roses and ripening corn, of days that stretch on, reaching for midnight until the spangled blue velvet of night descends and beginning again before cockcrow, when the dew jewels the grass like diamonds scattered while the earth slumbers.

Sometimes you have to call people out. Do that a time or two, and they learn pretty quickly how dangerous mirrors are. They rarely like seeing themselves.

I'm more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice.

There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice.

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn't a final destination. You don't one day get there and get to stay.

Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.

Love is ease, love is comfort, love is support and respect. Love is not punishing or controlling. Love lets you grow and breathe. Love's passion is only good passion -- swirling-leaves-on-a-fall-day passion, a-sky-full-of-magnificent-stars passion -- not angst and anxiety. Love is not hurt and harm. Love is never unsafe. Love is sleeping like puzzle pieces. It's your own garden you protect; it's a field of wildflowers you move about in both freely and together.

Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.

Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.

The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character.