Quotes about Growth

This menagerie - it was part of my being repented - to show up places where I might have been afraid, like the zoo or a marriage.

Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic—jealousy especially so—but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.

Your three-year-old and your work in progress teach you to give. They teach you to get out of yourself and become a person for someone else. This is probably the secret to happiness. So that's one reason to write. Your child and your work hold you hostage, suck you dry, ruin your sleep, mess with your head, treat you like dirt, and then you discover they've given you that gold nugget you were looking for all along.

You reap exactly what you sow; that is, you cannot grow tulips from zucchini seeds.

There is the absolute hopelessness we face that everyone we love will die, even our newborn granddaughter, even as we trust and know that love will give rise to growth, miracles, and resurrection.

We can change. People say we can't, but we do when the the stakes or the pain is high enough.

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal. The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.

For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better