"Child," said the Lion, "I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own."
~ C.S. Lewis
Growth
Our chief want
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
~ Abraham Lincoln
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
in Courage, Growth, Improvement, Strength
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
~ Maya Angelou
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
~ Goethe
in Attitude, Change, Growth, Happiness, Improvement
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We all worry about wasting time, about the years sliding past, about what we intend to do with our lives. We shouldn’t — for there there is a divine irrelevance in the universe that defies calculation. Many men and women win through to a sense of greatness in their lives only by first stumbling and fumbling their way into patterns that gratify them and allow them to utilize their endowments to the maximum.
~ James Michener
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
in Accomplishment, Faith, Growth
When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would have not a single bit of talent left and could say, “I used everything you gave me.”
~ Erma Bombeck
in Acceptance, Attitude, Being, Character, Growth, Hope, Improvement, Inspiration
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
~ Julius Charles Hare
in Change, Growth, Meaning, Possibility, Work
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
~ Wendell Berry
in Attitude, Change, Courage, Growth, Perseverance
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.
~ Carl Jung