Growth Quotes

"It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life."

- Anne Lamott

"Things will change: you won’t feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can’t feel real joy unless you’ve felt heartache. You can’t have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can’t know what it’s like to feel holy until you know what it’s like to feel really fucking evil. And you can’t be birthed again until you’ve died."

- Kelly Cutrone

"A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter."

- Wallace Stegner

"Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The paradox of learning is that to get better, you need to go outside your comfort zone, and thus feel worse. The people who grow continuously, thus feel consistently over their heads."

- Scott Young

"The point of parenting isn’t to have all the answers before we start out but instead to figure it out on the go as our children grow, because as they do, so will we."

- Bridgett Miller

""Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.""

- Dan Miller

""Transitions in life can offer opportunities for discovery.""

- Robbie Shell

""To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.""

- Henri Bergson

"There isn’t anything I wanted to do that I haven’t. At the same time, there isn’t anything I’ve ever done that I didn’t want to do better."

- Richard Rodgers

"Yet now in my arms, I was holding a helpless baby boy who would grow into a man. I cannot imagine that soft little face one-day having whiskers."

- Rhonda Stoppe

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."

- Oprah Winfrey

""It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.""

- Joseph Campbell

""It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life.""

- Anne Lamott

""Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it.""

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"God uses valleys to mold our character."

- Lee Stroble

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You build a house by laying down one brick at a time. So why in the world would you “huck” an new skill without progressions?"

- Sahil M

""Cheerleading teaches us that success is not just about winning, but about values, friendships, and growth.""

- Shannon Miller

"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day."

- Abraham Maslow

"keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths"

- Walt Disney

"Don’t live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally."

- Germany Kent

"Children are like wet cement; whatever falls on them makes an impression."

- Dr. Haim Ginott

""Parenting is a grand adventure, a journey of self-discovery, resilience, and the pure joy of witnessing a little soul blossom into its unique brilliance.""

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Pain is a pesky part of life, but it’s also a part of growth."

"Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come."

"One sometimes needs to take a step back in order to move forward."

"Happy 90th birthday! May this year be as lively and magnificent as your past nine decades have been."

"Happy Birthday at 90! Your grace in aging is a masterpiece of a life well-lived."

"Each new year is a gift of learning, growth, and hope."