“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
"A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter."
- Wallace Stegner
Growth
"Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend."
- Wallace Stegner
Reflection
"[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer."
- Wallace Stegner
New Beginnings
"Another fall, another turned page."
- Wallace Stegner
New Beginnings
"Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer."
- Wallace Stegner
New Beginnings
"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
- Max DePree
Growth
"How marvelous is the generation with which you deal. We have never had a generation its equal in all of the history of the Church. They are better educated. They are more familiar with the scriptures. I believe they pray with a greater measure of faith, have a greater desire to do the will of the Lord, are more active in the Church, go into the world as better prepared missionaries, and live to become better parents."
- President Gordon B. Hinckley
Growth
"Allow yourself the opportunity to get uncomfortable."
- Alex Toussaint
Growth
"All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone."
- Tony Robbins
Growth
"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
- Mary Tyler Moore
Growth