Quotes About Growth

I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your eyes to see the beans. At first it all looks like leaves, until you see one bean and then another and another. If you want clarity, too, you have to look hard. You have to look under things and look from different angles. You'll see what you need to when you do that. A hundred beans, suddenly.

I mean it's purposeful, even if we don't realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind….

There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.

True love, the good, beautiful, one-and-only kind, the kind between loving friends and family and partners who are mostly just trying hard to do their best, it manages to overlook some pieces of its story. It overlooks what he can't give you or how she failed you or what mistakes he made when he was struggling. It stays steady at its center. It evolves, through drought and storm. It grows. It survives.

You wouldn't match Melanie and me up, and if we hadn't gotten stuck together as lab partners in junior high science, I doubt if we'd have matched us up either. I'm not sure why we even stuck, except that we each probably find the other to be entertaining...Besides I feel like it was a personal mission of mine to broaden Melanie's world, though I think she felt the same for me.

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.

It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.

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

Good things don't always lead to bad ones, Crick.

Butterflies are trapped first, before they are free.

You wanted more from people sometimes. And sometimes,you wanted more from yourself.

Each story, good and bad, short or long--from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness--they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

Quercus: oak tree. The oak takes an extraordinarily long time to produce seeds. While some plants and trees do so within days or weeks, the oak can take up to fifty years to mature enough before it's ready for offspring. The same can be said for certain people who shall remain nameless.

Sometimes a decision is not one monumental event, but many small, slightly unsteady ones.

Sometimes, humans must also attempt to come back to life.

We are what we've been so far.

Knowing takes its own time. I swear sometimes you've gotta get really, really uncomfortable before it shows up.

Every morning you are reborn, and prove it worthwhile.

I am the one constant obstacle to my own momentum.

Fake it till you feel it

Expansion of character is connected to expansion of destiny.

As you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it.