Growth Quotes

To grow mature is to separate more distinc­tly, to connect more closely.

Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

You are not just deciding whether to stay with him: you are deciding what kind of woman you are. Are you the kind who stays with a person who physically abuses you, or are you the kind who gets treated properly because she will not allow anyone to treat her improperly?

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

The truth is everybody changes every day, and some things are more devastating than others, but we never are the same. And there are two ways to deal with these changes, you either accept them, or you fight them like hell all the way.

Contentment is not to be confused with self-satisfaction. The first is the rapture of knowing one is on the right path, the second is delusion in thinking that self growth is no longer necessary.

Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually seeks to cultivate it, even at the risk of separation or loss.

Always move towards pain when making art.

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

It's not my job to make you a better man and I don't give a s**t if I've made you a better man. It's not a f**king woman's job to be consumed and invaded and spat out so that some f**king man can evolve.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

The woman kneels in her garden, kneading her fifty square feet of earth. She coaxes up leaves, gets them to catch a teacupful of the two calories per cubic centimeter that the sun, in its improvident abundance, spills forever on the earth for no good reason except that it knew we were coming.

To deny oneself growth is personal abuse.

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.