Quotes about Growth
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
— Oscar Wilde
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
— Teresa of Avila
Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
— Etty Hillesum
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
— Charles Spurgeon
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.
— Anonymous
In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
— Marc Chagall
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
— Samuel Johnson
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
— Samuel Johnson
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
— Anonymous
Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.
— Anonymous