Quotes About Growth

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights

I believe it's after the honeymoon ends that true love begins. It's in the hard times that the greater virtues of love reveal themselves, like tolerance and patience and kindness.

It's not always wrong to quit. We should never hold onto a mistake just because we spent a lot of time making it.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

We are all in motion, always. Those who are not climbing towards something are descending toward nothing.

I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said, the things of greatest value are the things we fight for. And in the end, if we do it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

Sometimes life is like that...Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

Bad memories can attach themselves like barnacles to the hulls of our lives. And, like barnacles, they have a disproportionately large amount of drag.

Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

It's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promis.

They are like pythons in the jungle. The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python with squeeze and devour the child.

You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure-or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.

We all have a road to walk. The foolish walk blindly. The intelligent navigate it. The good repair it as they go. CHARLES JAMES'S DIARY

Kids don't come with owner's manuals. You have to figure each of them out, and by the time you do, they're gone.

Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

suppose we as children are selfish by nature, judging our parents in the context not of their worlds and challenges but of our worlds and how they meet our needs. Even as we mature we rarely think of them as having been young like us.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.

Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.

Some own up to their past. Some are owned by their past. The wise take what they can from the past and then leave it behind.

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.