5,371 Quotes About Growth

I could not deny that in this attractive city, without compelling assignments or any deadlines to reach for, all painful catalysts for growth had been eliminated, erased from my existence like the rogue lines in a sketch—the unexpected marks that make the picture’s expression passionate and real, gone now. Living here, I was growing complacent again, seduced by a stagnant state of mind I hated to indulge—

You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with.

my body is so hot from wanting youi’m spilling by the time we take our clothes offi want the kind of love thattranscends meinto another realmi want you so deepwe enter the spirit worldgo from being gentle to roughi want eye contactspread my legs toopposite ends of the roomand look with your fingersi want my soul to be touchedby the tip of yoursi want to comeout of this roomdifferent people- can you do that

The most painful moments and memories eventually lead to the greatest strengths and growth in life.

It is in the grand contradictions of the deepest soul that great moments of life are afoot.

Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.

He tried to remember her as a thin little urchin trailing across the fields with Garrick behind her. But that was no use at all. The urchin was gone forever. It was not beauty she had grown overnight but the appeal of youth, which was beauty in its own right.