Quotes about Growth

I was a tree in a story about a forest, the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree

Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.

I want to be with people who are humble and hungry, have healthy relationships, and are working to create new and better realities in the world.

He said, "Don, when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better. I chose to get better. It's made all the difference.

Jason decided to stop yelling at his daughter and, instead, created a better story to invite her into.

I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.

The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

I made a single decision early on. I decided I wouldn't judge my kids. No matter what they told me, I wouldn't judge them. I might have to discipline them, but I wouldn't make them feel like lesser people for their mistakes. And because of that, they learned to trust me with their deepest thoughts... We taught them the basics early. But the older they got, the more I listened without judgment as they figured out how to apply wisdom in their own lives. And they've turned out well.

I want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

Pain can serve a purpose if we cause it to. Again, while we do not have power over all that happens in the world, we do have power over our perspective. We can choose to take unfair and undue pain and cause it to serve our own story so that we become better. So that we transform.

You put something on the page," he said. "Your life is a blank page. You write on it".

He did believe we were designed to search for and find something. And he wondered out loud if the point wasn't the search but the transformation the search creates.