Quotes About Growth

I believe in taking risks and trying new things, both in my personal life and in my career.

I always try to approach each role with an open mind and a willingness to learn and grow as an actor.

My state of being. Well, I'd gone from pissed off, lonely, sad, frightened, and depressed, to being a little wiser, a little stronger, a little more resilient. I'd survived.

And dinnae be afraid to fail. The only way to learn anything in life is to try and fail, then continue trying until ye succeed.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. —ANAïS NIN

Books will change your lie, Rennie... you have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life' Margo said... 'you can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself'...

You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself," Margot promised.

Books will change your life, Rennie," Mrgot told me, handing me a copy of A Room of One's Own. You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life," Margot said.

THE USES OF SORROW by Mary Oliver (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

Books will change your life... you have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life. You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself.

You can't get past pain without going through it,

Trust is a seed that grows with attention and space. The facilitator can be a gardener, or the sun, the water.

Piece by piece I seemto re-enter the world.

There is a ladder.The ladder is always therehanging innocentlyclose to the side of the schooner.

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I write for them as well.

No one's fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen, we're not heroines, they happen in our lives like car crashes, books that change us, neighborhoods we move into and come to love.

An education is not something that you get, but something that you claim.

Every act of becoming conscious (it says here in this book) is an unnatural act

For every bandaged wound I'll scrape another   open

Every infant born is testimony to the intricacy and breadth of possibilities inherent in humanity. Yet from birth* in most homes and social groups, we teach children that only certain possibilities within them are livable; we teach them to hear only certain voices inside themselves, to feel only what we believe they ought to feel, to recognize only certain others as human.

I have to learn alone to turn my body without force in the deep element.

It means that most of the time I am eager, longing for the possibility of telling you. That these possibilities may seem frightening, but not destructive, to me. That I feel strong enough to hear your tentative and groping words. That we both know we are trying all the time, to extend the possibilities of truth between us. The possibility of life between us.

I've definitely got longer passing in my locker and you can bring that out more when you're playing in that No 8 position.