Quotes About Growth

spin a cocoon around herself.

Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realize we don't want to hold it together.

As much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

Yes, there had been many times I called my daughters back to zip up their coats. All the same, I knew they would rather be cold and free.

They would be enchanted beginners all over again, ... . That was the best thing to be in life.

The face beneath the mask has to grow seamlessly into the mask.

She was not ready to go home and start imitating someone she used to be.

That was the old composition and I had walked out of that world. I had literally walked off the stage.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly. Deborah Norville

It was almost as if she was still the bewildred girl of fourteen who wasn't ready to be an adult.

With determined perseverance the effort eventually becomes effortless, just as eating or brushing our teeth is effortless. We learn how energy flows. After a time the exercises and ritual of meditation are no longer needed as tools for growth. They become part of us and we use them at all times. In whatever we do there is meditation in action. But we must be careful not to deceive ourselves that we are already there. This is a new evolutionary step for us and we must begin at the beginning.

In a 1999 paper, Reiner indicates that his data show "that with time and age, children may well know what their gender is, regardless of any and all information and child-rearing to the contrary. They seem to be quite capable of telling us who they are, and we can observe how they act and function even before they tell us.

So much of what we are is water. We change with the tides, we struggle in our own endless seas to transform ourselves into something or someone splendid.

The wounded die or build a shield of scar tissue. Life moves on.

La vida no cuece a fuego lento simplemente porque tú bajes la llama.

art was a process of evolution - not revolution...

As satisfied as I was that I had accomplished what I had set out to do, I realized that the journey I had resolved to take did not end after the completion of the book. I have learned that each journey begets another one and life has a way of exponentially creating new roads to follow.

Good garden of peas!

Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

We cannot truly know and understand how God speaks to us unless we have actually experienced it. Learning to discern the fingerprint of God on your own life allows you to know deep in your soul and your skin the person God calls you to be. Then be that person instead of trying to be what you aren't. You'll be much richer for the experience. So will the rest of the world.

You never know what you're capable of until you're tested,

The past shouldn't rule the present.