Quotes about Growth

If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

As I began to love myself, I freed myself of anything that is no good for me—food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it as love of oneself.

It's the messy parts that make us human, so we should embrace them too —pat ourselves on the back for getting through them rather than being angry for having gotten into them in the first place