Quotes about Growth

Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.

I walked through the valley of my fate, is all, and learned to love what I could lose.

Move on. Walk forward into the light.

It is in his absence I prosper.

That's high school for you, a bevy of people unfit for adult life encounters in any form.

Every kid has it tough. Being a little person in a big world with nobody taking you very seriously is tough.

People change, she said. Not everything stays with you all your life.

Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story

The daily work—that goes on, it adds up. It goes into the ground, into crops, into children's bellies and their bright eyes. Good things don't get lost.

If the grown-up version of me could have one chance at walking backwards into this story, part of me wishes I could sit down on the back pew with that pissed-off kid in his overly tight church clothes and Darkhawk attitude, and tell him: You think you're giant but you are such a small speck in the screwed-up world. This is not about you.

Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

Every one of us is called upon, probably many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job or a limb or a loved one, a graduation, bringing a new baby home: it's impossible to think at first how this all will be possible. Eventually, what moves it all forward is the subterranean ebb and flow of being alive among the living.