Quotes about Growth

The perfect righteousness that we pursue is unattainable in this life. But if we hunger and thirst for it and diligently pursue it, over time we will grow more and more into the person God wants us to be.

Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money.

You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.

We are stronger in our broken places.

But people do. They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren't the same one.

With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. [...] Part of you died each year when leaves fell from the tress and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.

That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.