Quotes About Growth

He's Nola's blossoms, and he's ready.

there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.

It's good to see untended things thriving.

But you know what usually happens when you take a vacation to a place that galvanizes you and makes you feel like you're going to change your life. You come home and get right back into your old habits. Meanwhile, a slow fire burns. A

too. So you see that all my big mistake did was to make for a better party because that's how mistakes are, they make for a kind of relaxation, at least on the part of those not making them.

Life is funny, isn't it? Funny in the way you can never predict not only what will happen, but who you'll become.

her heart has opened.

Go about your business in the best way you know how, and love will find you. You know what they say: It's like a butterfly—you do better letting it land on you than trying to capture it.

That is the gift of love, not only that you have somebody but that you are changed by somebody.

Arthur thinks that, above all, aging means the abandonment of criticism and the taking on of compassionate acceptance

What's the point in loving anything when it will just change or be taken away?" I asked. And she said, "The point in loving is only that. And when you lose something, you have to remember that then there is room for the next thing. And there is always a next thing, Cece. I wish you would believe me.

They say that one of the reasons for tragedy is that you learn important lessons from it.

there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown. When

He says the only way to know yourself is to challenge yourself - in a hard way, so that you're really scared. He says what you do in times like that is what you are.

It's good for you to be a bit uncomfortable from time to time, especially if you're only a few steps away from relief.

When he wrote down harebells, he told me that they looked delicate, but that they could grow between rocks.

And when you lose something, you have to remember that then there is room for the next thing. And there is always a next thing.

We can't help but make mistakes. The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

Eighteen. The word is a poem.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

I feel so lucky at being able to do what I love. Writing has proved to be a fascinating journey – without maps and compass at times – but it is one where I am continually learning.

It takes experience to teach you what you can be satisfied with

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.

whatever she was up to, the whole thing made him