Growing Quotes

“Plants and flowers taught me how to grow, by growing in secret and in silence.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Auntie's voice wraps me like a blanket. 'Please be careful. Not every Elder is a cultural teacher, and not all cultural teachers are Elders. It's okay to listen to what people say and only hold on to the parts that resonate with you. It's okay to leave the rest behind. Trust yourself to know the difference'.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“Sometimes you’ve got to walk away from something’s to walk into better things.”
― Temi O'Sola

“Pain is the fire that steels the soul to better fight life’s battles and more deeply appreciate its beauty because of the battles. But maybe one of the greatest battles is being willing to live the beauty of this reality.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“i am trying to remember you
and
let you go
at
the same time.
— the mourn”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

“What I am saying is that lovely, whimsical, and soulful things happen in a garden, leaving a gardener giddy.”
― Janisse Ray, The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

“You live,
You grow,
You learn a lot
And think you know it all.
The sun,
So big,
So proudly hot,
It too will one day fall.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“I love beautiful things that one can touch and handle. Old brocades, green bronzes, lacquerwork, carved ivories, exquisite surroundings, luxury pomp, there is much to be got from all these. But the artistic temperament that they create, or at any rate reveal, is still more to me. To become the spectator of one's life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life. I know you are surprised at my talking to you like this. You have not realized how I have developed. I was a schoolboy when you met me. I am a man now. I have new passions, new thoughts, new ideas. I am different, but you must not like me less. I am changed, but you must always be my friend.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You do not get to pick and choose
the parts of me that you love
as if you're picking petals from a flower
love me
love me not
love this
not that
throwing the down on the grass while I'm asking
do you love me
do you love me
do you love me yet
by the time you are done pulling at the core
there is nothing left for you to love anymore”
― Alisha Christensen, Still Growing Wildflowers

“Growth nourishes love, love fosters growth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“All the while, I keep one ye on Eibhlín Dubh and one on my daughter in her car seat. She grows in that rear-view mirror. Soon, her eyes are open as I turn towards home. Soon, her gurgles can almost be translated into words. Soon, she is tugging at the straps in which I have bound her. Soon, she is smiling back at me. This is how years pass in that mirror: soon, too soon.”
― Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

“whenever i think about
my mother and father. and the amount of
cruelty
i have ate at their
hands.
i remember that
i am the best of them.
and
i
am
at peace.
— redeem”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

“It’s not even death that’s lonely. . . . I think it’s surviving. Because afterwards, you realize you did die—the person you were before is gone—and while everyone around you is pressing onward, you’re learning to become a person all over again.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“My heart is like a blank sheet.
And I draw something sweet.
Sometimes it's a growing bliss
To keep blowing a tender kiss!

Meu coração é como um papel em branco
Onde pinto e bordo, sem muito solavanco. As vezes mesmo sinto esse enorme prazer
ao mergulhar num mar de coisas pra fazer!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“Humans are growth oriented. When we are not learning, we are not growing, and when we are not growing, we are stagnating.”
― Ari Gunzburg, The Little Book of Greatness: A Parable About Unlocking Your Destiny

“A fortune can't be made from a single coin in the same way a forest can be grown from a single seed.”
― Lirzod Basha, Shambala Sect

“Keep learning, so you can keep growing.”
― Stussy Junksman, Shambala Sect

“Learning from one’s mistakes is as tough as life can be.”
― Stussy Junksman, Shambala Sect

“The art of becoming an adult is creating a place for child, for the former without the latter leaves us being less than half of what we could be and none of what we were supposed to be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Learning from our failures is more important than succeeding effortlessly because that is where true growth happens. ”
― Shelly Madigan

“Love without growth is no love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Love that refutes growth is not love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Take nothing as gospel (not even my words), except growth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“To your mind, feelings are what create a person, something unwilling, something wild vandalizing whatever the skull holds. Those sensations form a someone. The headaches begin then.”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

“Faith grows best in the Petri dish of suffering.”
― Danny L Deaubé

“Maybe if I was more patient with certain deaths, I would be more ready for the lives that come after them.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

“You must not fret. There is no arriving, ever. It is all a continual becoming.”
― Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

“Disrespect prevents love from growing.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“How come different agegroups grow up in almost completely different worlds?”
― Monaristw

“The irony of life is this: every fusion triggers a schism.”
― Wiss Auguste