Growing Quotes

Brian Tracy

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you
The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again.

C. JoyBell C.

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized
I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.

Jennifer Elisabeth

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

Deb Caletti

Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.

Tim Fargo

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.

Tony Schwartz

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

Kandi Dougherty

This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn't seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storms―overcast skies, fierce winds, and pelting rain. You were meant to be immersed in it all―first to float, then swim, and eventually to walk on water.

Julien Smith

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I could watch him do this until morning - never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly - his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.

Nalini Singh

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

Buky Ojelabi

I am a student at heart, even a child can teach me something new.

C.B. Cook

God always has a plan. This isn't his fault. This is a test, something designed to help you grow closer to God. And. I know, somehow, God will use it.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

Jennifer Elisabeth

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

Judy Collins

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself - my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?

Jennifer Elisabeth

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl - this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse - so is the love.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

Jennifer Elisabeth

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

Jennifer Elisabeth

If ever I was running, it was towards you.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years - across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…

Jennifer Elisabeth

I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself - here, tonight… even in this darkness.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Hope, in anything but myself, is just way too dangerous right now…

Charlotte Eriksson

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

C. JoyBell C.

We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

LeAnne Mechelle

But darling yesterday I was a different person, today I see you for what you are.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.

Jennifer Elisabeth

The Fall will always be yours and mine…

Jennifer Elisabeth

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I write letters to you that you’ll never see.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Time' is the most threatening four letter word.

Jennifer Elisabeth

So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.

Jennifer Elisabeth

You haunt my days and dreams.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

Jennifer Elisabeth

That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was - some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

Jennifer Elisabeth

If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.

Jennifer Elisabeth

In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is my life ever going to make sense?

Jennifer Elisabeth

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

Jennifer Elisabeth

It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.

Jennifer Elisabeth

He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself…

Jennifer Elisabeth

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

Bryant McGill

Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path - and that person could even be you.

Chris Burkmenn

We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.

Anthony Liccione

Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.

Unknown Author

En tiempos de manipulación televisiva, leer es un acto revolucionario.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.

Khalid Masood

A moment of time is the universe's fastest growing entity.

Khalid Masood

Time is the universe's fastest growing entity.

Edmond Mbiaka

Fear is something we all feel, but some people allow theirs to grow stronger than their courage.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations.

Brian Jacques

Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

Shannon A. Thompson

Our love was a river, always changing under the mercy of nature’s elements, but we continued to flow, even when we trickled.

Toba Beta

Hatred is always at war with love that keeps growing.

Bryant McGill

If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

Ricky Maye

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.

Amit Kalantri

Consistency is good, but progress is better.

Vera Nazarian

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.

Vera Nazarian

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Win or lose, good or bad, the experience will change you.

Sakyong Mipham

Of course, we all go through our own experiences. If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

He looked tired but at that moment, as we sat at the kitchen table, there was something young about him. And I thought that maybe he was changing into someone else. Everyone was always becoming someone else.

Madeleine L'Engle

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

Michael Bassey Johnson

When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question.

Richelle E. Goodrich

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world.

Dejan Stojanovic

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

Dejan Stojanovic

They grew; they did not talk about growing.

Ricky Maye

Being a Christian is about living an inviting example.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.

Paula Walker Baker

Never stop learning. Never stop growing.

Edmond Mbiaka

Don't let your pride get in your way of surrounding yourself with people who are smarter than you. Life is a continuous journey of learning and growing.

Edmond Mbiaka

Never give up on learning unless you are tired of growing and willing to settle for less.

Richelle E. Goodrich

No one is born a sprinter. We all learn to push ourselves up from the floor and then balance before taking that first, wobbly step. It is an individual choice where to go from there.

Terry Tempest Williams

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

Jenelle Dancel

If one comes to the sense that they have arrived, they no longer feel the need to submit themselves to the process of learning and growing. This is a dangerous mindset to carry. The day that we stop learning is the day we stop living.

C. JoyBell C.

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.

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