Growth quotations

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◆ The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one.

- Goldie Hawn99

◆ Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like that, for anybody; you can't fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can't live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can't wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- that's yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

- Daphne du Maurier99

◆ There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

- Katerina Stoykova Klemer99

◆ Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald99

◆ When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.

- Shauna Niequist99

◆ My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

- Marcel Proust99

◆ The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

- L.M. Montgomery99

◆ Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

- William Jordan99

◆ As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

- Criss Jami99

◆ No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today.

- Sandy Brewer99

◆ The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

- Criss Jami99

◆ A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.

- Solange nicole99

◆ Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

- John F. Kennedy99