Quotes about Growth

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Here, as elsewhere, the gain of creation consists always in the growth of individual minds, which live and aspire, as flowers bloom and birds sing, in the midst of morasses; and in the continual development of that thought, the thought of human destiny, which is given to eternity adequately to express, and which ages of failure only seemingly impede.