Quotes About Growth

Family wasn't just those you grew up with, but those you grew better with.

A veces se necesita que te den un buen golpe en la cabeza para darte cuenta de que lo que siempre has deseado no era lo que más te convenía.

It had made me strong, but it had left me flawed.

I've changed." I didn't want to hear this. They never changed, they simply hid it better.

a gardener in a savage Eden

Something in me hardened, and the last of my feelings for Nick died.

Mistakes can be fixed, but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.

when there is trust and love. No one is bound. No one loses his or her will. No one becomes less. Both become more than they can be alone. But it is so rare, so beautiful when it happens.

Mistakes can be fixed but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.

It was as if a part of me had died, accepting that I couldn't be who I wanted, so I had to work at making who I was someone I could live with.

Uncle Austin used to say that all of our joy and suffering comes from the same single sacred utterance; that we live by being wounded and healed and wounded again, and healed, one day at a time.

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

Bad things don't just grow on one path, they're everywhere. So don't blame yourself when those things happen. Don't let yesterday take up much of today.

Slow is not the same as deficient. It's just slow. A glacier is slow too, but it gets there, and nothing stops it.

We have come a long way, we have a long way to go. In between we are somewhere.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Happy and angry. Happily angry. Everything, all at once. That's life, boy. You just keep getting fuller, until you burst and Allah takes you and casts your soul into another life later on. And so everything just keeps getting fuller.

It grew in the dark, it's a stack, a hyperobject, an accidental megastructure. No

My body worked so well that eventually all things everywhere were swallowed and digested by me. I grew so large that I ate the world, and all the blood in the world is mine. What am I? You know, even though you are like everything else, and see me from the inside. I am the market.

most economists are still working within the empty-world model of economics.

bubbles and Ponzi schemes and capitalism all have to keep growing or else they are in deep shit.

He wanted to settle into a full human life, to pick a place and stay there, to learn it completely, in all its seasons, to grow his food, make his house and his tools, become part of a community of friends.

Some mistakes you never can make good.