Quotes about Growth

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

I can change nearly everything about myself. I can run from my children and trade in my spouse, move to another country and raise green rabbits for a living, but unless I care for my soul, I will not have changed who I am.

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ by loving. —FRANCIS DE SALES

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.