Quotes about Growth

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Few, if any, survive their teens.

In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. Even then?

You do your best until you know better, then you do better.

It was a large heart with lots of hearts growing smaller inside, and piercing from the outside rim to the smallest heart was an arrow.

You may encounter many defeats. But you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats so you can know who you are, what you can rise from and how you can still come out of it.

Adults had lost the wisdom from the surface of their faces. I reasoned that I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does.

after all, girls have to giggle, and after being a woman for theee years I was about to become a girl.