Quotes about Growth

If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.

Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.

We must have the attitude that every child in America - regardless of where they're raised or how they're born - can learn.

Of the unchanging things, the town in which you first saw the light is one of the most unchanging. It is always a place of monotony but at the same time, as you grow, change, go away, remember, return, and go away again, it is one of the most inexhaustibly rich places. And yet what it is is so nearly nothing, except for the dull, drab, lonely, lost objects of it, that you never know, each time you return to it, what it is that holds you so strongly to it.

INTRODUCTION THE FIRST NEGOTIATION Let him who would move the world first move himself. —SOCRATES

have found that this journey from no to yes with myself is not a single trip, but ultimately a lifelong journey. I have been on this journey for a long time and expect to be on it for as long as I live.

Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

As one's fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

Facing our fears, skeletons, and mistakes is paramount in finding ourselves-in living with ourselves. Once it's done, that fear will be laid to rest, and she'll be stronger for having dealt with it and have more peace becausse she's not carrying the weight of that fear every day and night.