Quotes about Growth

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort and effort means work.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

In almost every story, the fiercest battles often take place within.

Parents are strange and wonderful creatures. When you're small they seem bright, shiny, and invincible. As you grow, that image starts to fade. It's a sobering moment, but the time will come when you realize they are not the heroes you imagined. They are just people struggling to do the best they can, just the same as you are.You will feel let down, betrayed, even ashamed. This is the time,...when you need to forgive your parents for being human.

All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.

To find purpose in our problems, to see past the ugliness, rather than step back, we should get closer. Only then will we notice the beauty.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.