Quotes about Growth
Her body was growing old, but inside she still kept intact the adolescent she once was.
— Isabel Allende
My old age is a precious gift. My brain still works. I like my brain. I feel lighter. I am free of self-doubt, irrational desires, useless complexes, and other deadly sins that are not worth the trouble. I am letting go…letting go. I should have started earlier.
— Isabel Allende
One is never too old to get younger.
— Isabel Allende
Chile with the purpose of finding her lover and becoming his slave forever, believing that was the way to extinguish her thirst to submit and her hidden wish for possession, but now she doubted that she could give up those new wings beginning to sprout on her shoulders.
— Isabel Allende
I am no longer tormented by an excess of discipline, as I was before.
— Isabel Allende
I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.
— Joel Osteen
Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
— Angela Duckworth
It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It's always beyond what you've ever done.
— Bruce Wilkinson
I always learn a lot when I do so. You know, when you step out of your comfort zone and even your cynical zone, and open yourself up to what other people might experience and why they do so.
— Todd Haynes
We want to take ourselves out of our comfort zones; when you're in your comfort zone for so long, you only play to a certain level.
— Toni Duggan
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
— William James
Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.
— Anonymous