632 Quotes About Growing

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.

People say to you, ‘you’ve changed’, or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God that you have changed, because I don’t want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don’t change. Dead things don’t change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

Being a Christian is about living an inviting example.

And we shall all carry on with our hearts set on the next best thing...because we know how we have lived and understand what we have lost, and aren’t willing to lose so much the second time through.

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.

We plant, God grows"~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

I'm thinking about babies. Emma's baby. Jack and my baby. Growing in my mind, if not in my womb.

The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year,