Quotes About Growth

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.

Growing up shouldn't mean giving up.

Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.

People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.

Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

There is the before. And then there is the after. Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

I realize that lessons are meant to be learned, honored even, or else you can spend your life running so far from them that you erect a false existence around the very thing you should be embracing.

The past is who you are. The future is what you do with that.

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

Mostly, people are who they are. But if you accept this about them, you can move forward and build from there—then, they can surprise you.

The strangest thing about returning to an enclave that encapsulated your youth is that you feel like nothing should have changed. Like you still have the right to be twenty and carefree and irresponsible. Like you still are twenty and carefree and irresponsible.

It gets easier. Eventually you figure out what went wrong and you sort of breathe a sigh of relief that you didn't make a more permanent mistake. And then you just hope that you find someone who won't end up being another misstep.

The point of life wasn't to go back and litigate all those mistakes. The point, Cleo supposed, was to do better.

Allison Winn Scotch

Independence, she's discovered, feels just as good as codependence once did. She's as surprised as anyone to realize this.

Without struggle there is no progress.

The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

We're seniors." "I know," I said "So aren't you... curious?" "About what?" "About life. Out there. Life!" she said again. "Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?" We'd reached another door, and I stopped and looked up at the camera that monitored the entrance, just as I whispered, "Alive.

I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

And yet, she knew she could be.

Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father's knee and her uncle's table.