Quotes about Growth
Every child has to raise itself.' Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction.
— Anne Frank
After all, he's not my boyfriend! For that matter, he wouldn't be able to tell a healthy sound from an unhealthy one. He'd have to have his ears cleaned first, since he's becoming alarmingly hard of hearing. But enough about my illness. I'm fit as a fiddle again. I've grown almost half an
— Anne Frank
Why do grownups quarrel so easily, so much, and over the most idiotic things? Up till now I thought that only children squabbled and that wore off as you grew up.
— Anne Frank
how different we were back then; we don't even recognize ourselves from that period.
— Anne Frank
Alone I had to face the difficult task of changing myself, to stop the everlasting reproaches, which were so oppressive and which reduced me to such terrible despondency.
— Anne Frank
It's good that somebody has finally cut me down to size, has broken my pride, because I've been far too smug.
— Anne Frank
Every child has to raise itself." Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately, people shape their own characters.
— Anne Frank
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.
— Anne Lamott
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
— Anne Lamott
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
— Anne Lamott
I pray not to be such a whiny, self-obsessed baby, and give thanks that I am not quite as bad as I used to be (talk about miracles). Then something comes up, and I overreact and blame and sulk, and it feels like I haven't made any progress at all. But it turns out I'm less of a brat than before, and I hit the reset button much sooner, shake it off, and get my sense if humor back.
— Anne Lamott
It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
— Anne Lamott