Quotes About Growth

The only promise of childhood is that it will end.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don't' feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they're avoiding.

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

Too many times we lose today's battles because we're still engaged in fighting yesterday's.

The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.

Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.

Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.

So if she left you because you suck, she still did you a favor." "How is that?" "Because no one is happy living in a sick relationship, whether they're the weak link or the strong one. And if you're the weak link, this is your chance to learn that." "What are you, a marriage counselor?" "No. I'm a weak link.

Ódio, ressentimento e raiva são parasitas que se alimentam do coração até que não haja nada para nutrir o amor." A Promessa.

Everything human is evolving. Always. This includes our hearts and desires, as well as our bodies.

Regret is a useless emotion.

Sometimes the evolving terrain of life requires us to evolve with it. When those times come, we usually find ourselves quivering on the precipice of change as long as we can, because no one wants to dive headlong into the ravine of uncertainty. No one. Only when the pain of being becomes too much do we close our eyes and leap.

We do not succeed in spite of our obstacles and challenges. We succeed precisely because of them.

Life has a way of making us pay for our happiness. [Richelle Bach]

Einstein said that insantiy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Sometimes we need the darkness to reveal our light.

I found myself changing into the very thing I hated. That's what hate does—it remakes us in its image.

I believe that, for the most part, we don't succeed in spite of our hardships but precisely because of them.

Love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. In the end, if we have done it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

Usually life's greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

I read.. because one life is not enough

A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.