Quotes about Growth

Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on.

When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us.

People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

One forgets so quickly one's own youth…

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.

Married people grow like each other.

The main characters in a novel must necessarily have some kinship to the author, they come out of his body as a child comes from the womb, then the umbilical cord is cut, and they grow into independence. The more the author knows of his own character the more he can distance himself from his invented characters and the more room they have to grow in.

The more we know the more we love.