“As we run, we become.”
“We had stepped into the river that takes you forward.”
“I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.”
“I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.”
“Don t give up on your goal for the little bit of comfort. Grow. Jump. Hustle.”
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
“Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.”
“My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.”
“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
“I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.”
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you re climbing it.”