Quotes about Growth

No one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side.

A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.

If you don't change, you're dead or dead inside.

Life is a journey. As you walk along the road you can either look back or you can look ahead. ... Look ahead. Always look for the very next step.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots. Religion may be a flower, but people are its roots.

There is a healthier self within each of us, just wating for encouragement

You're always the person you were when you were born. You just keep finding new ways to express it.

Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.

People want to come home to the church of their childhood without having to leave their adult selves behind.

every trip, my pockets full of scribbled notes about new events. Altogether I might never have had the will or the way to do any of the things that matter most to me, had it not been for just being Out There. Taking to the road—by which I mean letting the road take you—changed who I thought I was. The road is messy

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.