Quotes about Growth

When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

Sometimes love is hard. The more you practice loving yourself, it becomes second nature. Love yourself no matter what."

If the Church is to be indigenous it must spring up in the soil from the very first seeds planted.

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

Let God leave us! Let us grow up. Let us walk forward on our own. Because we need the silence of the holy: we need the sacred and equally we need its maddening silence. And in the curious privacy and relief of that silence we can go out into the chaos and commit a thousand acts of minor and gleeful splendor all our own. If it's our tragedy to be left by God, then let it also be our luck.

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.