Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

What doesn’t kill you simply makes you stranger!

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

Take the black melon. It will help you recover. It takes some getting used to. With time you start to crave it.

Maybe everything hurts,
Our hearts shadowed & strange.
But only when everything hurts
May everything change.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.

To have faith doesn’t mean you get any less frustrated when you don’t do your best, but you know that it’s not life and death. Take what you’re given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.

If you want to do something, go for it — you’ve got nothing to lose.

You’ve got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you’ve got to blossom where you’re planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…

Rejection Is God’s Protection
When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life.

Everyone can have a new beginning. That is why we have tomorows.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

The hurt is how we know
We are alive & awake;
It clears for us all the exquisite,
Excruciating enormities to come.
We are pierced new by the turning
Forward.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.

Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.

it’s moments like
this – you can feel it
happening – that you grow
transformed
partly into something
else strange and
unimaginable—
so when death comes
it can only take
part of
you.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big

Our scars are the brightest parts of us.

Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Behind every successful man, there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong.

Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

Tides don’t last forever and when they go, they leave behind beautiful seashells.

It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be

I’m grateful to have someone who worries about me and supports me. That’s why, even if I am weak, I want to be someone who

Just because the past didn’t turn out like you wanted it to, doesn’t mean the future can’t be better than you ever imagined.

Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in

My speech impediment wasn’t a stutter but it was dropping several letters that I just could not say for several years, most specifically the ‘r’ sound.

I was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.

I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch.

I don’t want to just take anymore. I don’t want to trample on anything ever again.

Wow, I wonder what it’d be like to have a difficult life?

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Life is not what is promised,
But what is sought.
These bones, not what is found,
But what we’ve fought.
Our truth, not what we said,
But what we thought.
Our lesson, all we have taken & all we have brought.

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

When this ends, we’ll smile sweetly, finally seeing
In testing times, we became the best of beings.

Life is precious, we don’t know which moment is going to be our last moment in this world. Every moment needs to be celebrated. Life is meaningful, every moment needs to be embraced with learnings.

By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.

Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.

Decay (or anicca) is inherent in all component things. Work out your own salvation with diligence.

Everything you can learn from is an opportunity to become stronger.

We rise to challenges, we will meet them, we’re well prepared for them, we’ll get through them and emerge on the other side stronger.

Give thanks for the blessings you have. Your supply will grow as a result.

You are so much stronger than you think. Sometimes it seems like everything around you can break apart but you are able to hold it all together, you are strong and brave and the best part is that you always come back stronger.

I don’t feel like I’m ever done learning, and that’s the beauty of life.

The crescent moon,
The night’s lucent lesion.
We are felled oaks beneath it,
Branches full of empty.
Look closer.
What we share is more
Than what we’ve shed.

I can hear change humming
In its loudest, proudest song.
I don’t fear change coming,
And so I sing along.

We are built up again
By what we
Build/find/see/say/remember/know.
What we carry means we survive,
It is what survives us.
We have survived us.
Where once we were alone,
Now we are beside ourselves.
Where once we were barbed & brutal as blades,
Now we can only imagine.

All that is grave need
Not be a burden, an anguish.
Call it instead, an anchor,
Grief grounding us in the sea.

The pain pulls us apart,
Like lips about to speak.
Without language nothing can live
At all, let alone
Beyond itself.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

We can’t go back to who we once were. We can only go on and become the person we were meant to be.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Life is a gem the more you polish the more it will shine.

It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.

This week is going to be amazing! Here’s to new beginnings and making the most of an awesome month.

Don’t be afraid of change. You may end up losing something good, but you’ll probably end up gaining something so much better.

Start something new with these fresh picks for the month of September.

Every day is a chance to start fresh and make changes. What will you do today?

Here’s to August. A new month, new beginnings, and a whole lot of beautiful days ahead.

Another month, another chance to get it right.

So you don’t have the whole solution today. So what! The obstacles are opportunities for growth.

Don’t look down on yourself and on your life. Everyone goes through struggles, and they give us an opportunity to learn and grow as a person. Keep your head up so that you don’t miss any of the opportunities that are waiting for you.

Happy New Month everyone! May it be better than the last.

Cheers to a new month and another chance for us to get it right.

New month, new week, new chance to make things right.

Here’s to every day being the beginning of something wonderful.

Every year we have an opportunity to make ourselves into whatever we want to be. It’s a great chance to start fresh and evaluate our goals for the people we want to be.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

You really don’t have to burn any bridges to let go… You don’t have to destroy anything. You can just decide to cross over and

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Smile and let everyone know that today, you’re a lot stronger than you were yesterday.

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

God’s plan is always the best. Sometimes the process is painful and hard. But don’t forget that when God is silent, he’s doing something great for you.

You have to make room for the things that God has in store. Be patient as you grow through the process. Trust Him.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Your hardest times of often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going tough situations build strong people in the end.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Breathe in the new. Let go of the old. Make way for the new month, new opportunity, and a new beginning.

If you can’t do anything about it, then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.

There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go

Sometimes, holding on does more damage than letting go.

Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve

You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Angels, we have grown apart.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Maternal love is perhaps the most powerful, positive influence on a son’s development and life.

A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent.

Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons.

Yet now in my arms, I was holding a helpless baby boy who would grow into a man — I cannot imagine that soft little face one day having whiskers.

You’re everything I want in someone I don’t want anymore.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people… they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you… when there is no spiritual growth… there is no spiritual strength… there is no lasting happiness… and, there is no real or lasting wealth.

Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.

Although you literally took your first step when you were several months old, each time you want to make a change in your life you must take a first step that puts you in that new direction.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Akito, I’ve been thinking: I guess I forgive you too maybe that is the wrong word. I’m sick of blaming others, so I’m done. Truth

Yuki Sohma: You can’t stand on your own. Your strength alone isn’t enough.
Shigure Sohma: Sometimes, you have to lean on others. What you do next

I hope that when I look back on the person I am now, seeing him will make me smile. I wonder if I’ll ever feel

Hey don’t worry: it won’t always be like this. As your body and mind grow, the fear will fade.

Ms. Honda, I can tie my tie faster than I used to and it looks better. And fewer of my vegetables have been dying lately.

Things we didn’t understand as children become strangely clear as we age.

I’m sorry… All I ever do is hurt people… Even so, that is the path I’ve chosen. I, on my own, decided on this path.

Why… Do you want to break the curse? The thing you can’t give up… What is it? The thing that’s most important to you… WHAT

But Haru… DID… Want me. There WAS someone… Who wanted me… Even though I have been told… That I was unwanted. I’m happy… What… A

I’m just a kid…! I’m pathetic. I hate myself so much I could die. Not like this… I don’t want to be like this… I

Go for it, Hiro. It’ll be a good story for when you’re a big brother.

And Yuki… Isn’t the closed up little boy that he used to be. Now then… The fool who is making the biggest misunderstanding… Is WHO?

I don’t like making it anyone’s fault anymore. If I blame somebody else, no matter how much time passes, I won’t be able to change.

Hiro-san… You can do things. You can be the WONDERFUL PRINCE who protects Kisa-san. Because inside you, Hiro-san… You do… Have courage.

When Yuki-kun came here, something changed. And Kyo-kun, too. I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure it’s a very good thing. What about…me?

Old Sophie : Did you use your magic to make this?
Howl : Only a little, just to help the flowers grow.

Brian: You asked me why I let Dom go. I did it, because at that moment, I respected him more than I did myself. One thing I’ve learned from Dom is that nothing really matters unless you have a code.
Mia: And what’s your code, Brian?
Brian: I’m working on it.

I’m a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

What will you be adding to your plate this month?

It’s a new month, with new opportunities to be your best self. Here’s to the possibilities.

Take life one day at a time because every day is a different day with new challenges.

The only way to know our true size is taking up on challenges and learning how to surpass them with style and confidence. We will never know what we are able to achieve if we hide in a comfortable spot, where there is no place for growth.

Life wasn’t meant to be easy.

It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part.

If you know what to do to reach your goal, it’s not a big enough goal.

You should be grateful for the individuals in your life that challenge you since they’ve helped show you what you don’t want to be.

The strongest men are those who have endured the most difficult challenges in their lives.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

What to do, how to do it…it’s simple. It’s also just really tough. But I know now…that’s exactly why it’s so important.

Comfort is not where you grow. You grow in conflict, easy to say but hard to do. Adversity’s greatest gain is I grow closer to Christ and still understand that God’s in control and He always knows my situation. It’s not too big for Him. And He has a plan for me. But sometimes the plan’s not exactly what I want. But the plan is hopefully, to influence other people for eternity as they watch me go through that situation.

Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everlasting benefit.

Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are.

You are a work in progress. Give yourself the space and grace for improvements.

Tell me, what do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Life is precious, so add life to your age and add age to your life.

Getting what you want doesn’t make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don’t know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can’t have what they want.

My desire is to strive toward perfection; to be as much in harmony with God’s will as possible; to live up to the highest light I have. I’m still not perfect, of course, but I grow daily… I am able to do everything I am called to do, and I do know what I need to know to do my part in the Divine Plan. And I do experience the happiness of living in harmony with God’s will for me.

I’m still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I’m always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.

Can’t they just be happy for me like, a kid with nothing living out his dreams
Why they gotta fucking hate?

When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Be thankful for another day of life and all the wonderful things that come with it. Remind yourself that you are a work in progress and that’s okay.

Every barber always prays for the fast growth of the human hair. It’s a blessing for them.

Growth of human hair is the absolute blessing for a barber.

The only way to correctly predict
The future is to pave it,
Is to brave it.
The breakage is where we begin.
The rupture is for remembering.

The first bud of spring sings the other seeds into joining her uprising.

The life I’ve been exposed to has let me know what step to take and how not to go back a step. I take life one day at a time, and I prepare myself for each one of those days.

If it were that simple…to change yourself completely…no one would suffer. But even so…this is hope. Even if it was just a tiny bit…I definitely felt it.

I was just… a little desperate. I was fed up with repeating the same mistakes day after day.

I would never be tired of you even if I am with you all day long. In fact I grow to like you a little more every day. I love you.

The more you love me, the more I love you and the more I love you, the more you love me.

I promise you, I will never give up on us.

I promise to plant kisses like seeds on you body, so in time you can grow to love yourself as I love you.

I love you for your sense of humor, your generous heart, and your ability to make any situation an adventure. I love you now and I promise to love the person you’ll become as you change and grow in the coming years.

You’re the best thing to happen to me and I never want to let you go. The feelings that I feel for you, they only continue to grow.

Every single second my love for you grows.

Repeat with me: I am responsible for my life, for my feelings, for my growth, and for every result I get.

A person trying to take control of their own life without God, is like a 7-year-old behind the wheel of a muscle car.

Neither people nor feelings can be bound, frozen in time.

I’m sorry…for being such a coward.

I’m heading toward that future. I’m going to take my place in this ever-changing world. I’m finally…going to start walking down a path of my own choosing.

Maybe…I’m closer now than I was before. I did stomp on a few things, though. In order to reach this point…it took me forever to understand. And so I’ve finally made it this far. Well, I still have a long ways to go.

Time marches on. It’s already begun that hike. People…and feelings move on, too.

After all this time, you’re still incredible. I feel so lucky to have you in my life.

I fell in love with you more and more every day. I never thought this day would come, that I would want to spend everyday with you. It doesn’t get any better than this, I promise you that. You are my dream come true, my ideal partner. Love only grows more with the passing of each day and honestly, it can’t get any better than this!

For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Every day I’m with you, I love you more.

We need to train our minds, to follow the will of God. It is the will of God that our lives should change for the better.

God knew that not all lessons are taught in the classroom. Hence, He allows life to teach us some extraordinary lessons.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Each day is a new opportunity to grow closer to God and to each other. I’m grateful for you and our life together. Good morning, my love!

Don’t be an extra in your own movie. Move out of your comfort zone. Don’t be afraid of feeling uncomfortable or awkward. Step-out and make it happen.

Good morning to you, my daughter! May you blossom, as you go about your day!

That ‘me’ is becoming a memory, too.

Change is made of choices, & choices are made of character.

You’ve grown up. As I hoped you would when I sent the message to your father.

Yes. Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

A life, after all, is simply a series of little lives, each of them lived one day at a time, and every single one of those days has choices and consequences. Piece by piece, those decisions help to form the people we become.

I’ve decided…I can’t remain at a standstill anymore.

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

You’ll find more time for yourself and your loved ones, you’ll feel more motivated and less stressed out, and in time, you’ll realize that everything really does work out and turn out exactly as it should.

Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s everything in between that makes it all worth living.

Let’s start this month with a fresh perspective on life.

New Month, New Beginnings. Time to set intentions and goals for this new month and make the most of it!

It’s always the month to be a new you.

Let’s do this. It’s going to be a big month. Why not make it the best? Ok, so let’s go!

New month, new beginnings. Always keep an open heart and an open mind.

New month, new me, right? Right. Let’s do this!

Start a new chapter, and write a new story. This month is all about new beginnings so let’s make it epic!

We’re in the new year! This means you’ll have a chance to start fresh with your goals and resolutions.

Say goodbye to the past and hello to a new month with a new you.

What’s up, August? We’re ready for you.

Feeling inspired? You should be. It’s the start of a new month. Are you ready to take on the world? We are.

1. Greet the new month with a smile.
2. Goodbye, old ways that no longer serve.
3. Hello, beautiful future ahead!

A new month, new chapter, new page and new wishes. May the month give you courage, strength, confidence, patience, self-love and peace.

The object of a new month is not that we should have a new month. It is that we should have a new soul.

Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it.

People say “never give up” but sometimes giving up is the best option because you realize you’re wasting your time.

I have always held myself out as a hair culturist. I grow hair.

I won’t get to hear you say, “Welcome home,” to me anymore, will I, Honda-san? But…but I’m happy for you too. The “me” who’s arrived at this point is happy for you. I…I was always…so weak. I wasn’t good at making connections with other people, but I wanted to be loved. I wanted to be needed. I yearned for those things…and then, one day, you came into my life. You made those dreams come true. You granted my wishes without asking for anything in return. You gave me so much. And it’s because of that that I can stand in front of you here today. You helped me become a full-fledged “human being.” You helped me grow as a person. You…were like a mother to me. I was finally able to tell you that. I know my true feelings are a little on the embarrassing side…but, you know, it’s the same for them too, I think. Your presence is so warm and kind…so even though we’re all going our separate ways now, starting new lives in new places, every so often, we’ll still think of you. “Is she doing well? She’s not crying, is she? Is she smiling even now? Is she happy today too?” That’s how we’ll always think of you. Thank you…I’m so glad I met you. I’m so glad you were here… Thank you, thank you, thank you… Tohru.

For things to change you need to change. For things to get better you need to get better. The good news is you can change,

I’ve been down a long road, but I promise you, it gets better.

Everything gets better with time, and time is forever.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

It doesn’t matter what things are like. They can get better. That’s what we want to put our focus on.

You are on an incredible journey. It is not just about reaching the top of the peak. It’s about enjoying the growth as you climb.

The world is your canvas and your teacher. Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

When you make a decision, you don’t have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.

Cultivate the distance. Nurture the silence. Let it grow until your fragile heart is as far and inaccessible as his marbled emotions. Don’t talk. Don’t move. Sit still. If he shows up, lie. Believe your own excuses. And if he tries to charm his way back in, punch him in the face.

Good morning, my daughter! May you grow in grace and beauty!

Strength does not have to be a thing that you’re born with, it can be developed.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

A man is not born strong, he makes himself that way.

Rambo: Gabrielle, I care for you like a daughter. I know you want answers. Just wait a little while. Grow up a little bit. Know about the world a little bit. Would you do that for me, please?
Gabrielle: Alright.

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Last time I saw you, you had nothing. Now you’ve got a woman and a radio.

A weak man becomes strong when he realizes he has nothing left to lose.

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

The strongest people are people who faced the toughest situations in life. People who are defeated by the toughest battles are stronger than those who have won by using the escape route!

I’m a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

There are people I really admire. But they influence me pretty heavy right now because my own style is still blossoming. So I’m not going to tell you who they are because then you’ll know where I’m stealing from.

In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.

It’s a reminder for anyone who needs it including myself;
There ain’t anything wrong about falling apart,
Just take it as a beautiful chance for you; to rebuild yourself all over again and to recreate a new version of you who doesn’t know what it means to give up on the person you’re becoming …

Start over…begin again.

Everything in life starts as a seed – a relationship, a marriage, a business, a church. And nothing happens until the seed is planted.

Deep in your wounds are seeds, waiting to grow beautiful flowers.

You raze the old to raise the new.

Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.

You can’t just think and grow rich, you’ve got to do something with those thoughts.

I’m watching Kevin Gates grow. I’m proud of it. He’s starting not to make excuses. He’s starting to hold himself accountable. I’m proud of him. It took a little longer then it took for most people. Women mature faster than men, but I’m proud of him.

Adversity builds character. He who faints in adversity is not strong.

You gotta make this person fall in love with you again because they have no memory or recollection of who you were at that time. Because you’re a different person every time you come home, you grow.

My mentality, I guess. I used to deal with things totally differently than the way that I deal with things now. And I believe that comes through growth and maturity. And when you grow, your way of life changes. Everything changes. The things that were interesting at one point, they’re not as interesting now.

I came in the game with a different attitude than I have now. And I had to grow. I had to mature. In that growth and in that maturity, that point of maturity I realized that ay, the people that interview me, we really only having a conversation. And they not from the same walk of life that I am, so my life is super interesting to them.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

Reaching the goal is not success; success is moving toward the goal, and experiencing growth.

Goals are not to get stuff. They’re to GROW!

In order to learn, grow, and soar to new heights YOU MUST step out of your comfort zone.

As you grow in awareness, your change in mindset may separate you from those around you.

There’s a feeling you can’t understand unless you get hurt and cause trouble. There’s also a feeling you won’t get unless you hit rock bottom. You rebel against the ideals of life, but then everything goes bad, and for the first time, you find yourself yearning for those ideals. Pain would mean nothing without kindness. Darkness can’t stand out without the sun. Neither is something to scoff at. Both sides of the equation have meaning. So even if you stumble and make mistakes, it isn’t for nothing. If you think to yourself, “I won’t let this be for nothing!” it’ll turn into something that will help you grow.

There’s virtually no limit to our growth and development potential.

We’re really young, so there’s a lot of room for growth. If these girls stay together and work together during the off-season they will grow as a team.

Sit down and write it down with a pen and then make up your mind you are going to do it. Don’t spend any time thinking of why you can’t. The fun is not in getting it, the fun is in growing. Goals are to help us grow, goals are to help us get. The getting is a site benefit; the growth is the real benefit.

It’s about really really being who you are as an individual and not apologizing for it, that’s what it is. I can feel the growth from my first mixtape to now. On every song, I want to give you a piece of who I am as an individual.

I can’t see Kyoko-san ever again, but she left a lot behind for me. Her words, her feelings…and Tohru. All of them are things that will help me grow.

A conscience grows, just like the body. It’s bred within your heart. That’s why the shape of people’s kindness is so different.

She said that kindness is something that grows inside of each person’s body, but it’s up to us to nurture that kindness in our hearts. That’s why kindness is different for every person.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.

“But plants grow again,” She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. “They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil.”

The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.

Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now.

Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you — they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart.

I never want to grow up.

As we get into the mind and plan of God, our faith will grow, and its power will be manifest in ourselves and those for whom we are believing.

Study your lessons, don’t settle for less.

Be grateful for all you do already have. But never settle for less than you can be.

“I daresay she is as proud of you as I am. We are two old ladies who both had a hand in forming you. You are, one might say, our joint creation.”

“Don’t you think I did any of me myself, then?” Howl asked. “Put in just a few touches of my own?”

“A few, and those not altogether to my liking,” Mrs Pentstemmon replied.

Cutting hair is an art, not just a craft. Like any form of art, there is a learning curve and uncharted territory that every barber encounters along the way.

The barbershop… where boys become men.

Be thankful for progress, and not perfection.

Learn from this, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Hell does have an exit, and I found it. For those who are still looking for a way out, I left the door open and I’ll be waiting for whoever wants to grow with me.

When things get tough, remember to be grateful for them. At those moments, you learn and progress. When things get tough, remember to be grateful for what you can learn from your limits. It would help if you were grateful for each new obstacle because it will help you grow in strength and character. Be grateful for your errors. You’ll learn a lot from them.

Your purpose is your business, and if you let this be your constant reminder, you will not be intimidated or distracted by the achievement of others. Your purpose needs just as much attention as you’re giving to the business of others; and if you don’t put your nose in your own business, how can you then experience this beautiful life transition called Growth?

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

You’d better have faith that everything happens for the best. Nothing happens in your life that isn’t something that you are meant to learn to get you where you need to go so you can become who you are meant to be. And that meant-to-be might be someone you don’t even know exists at this moment in time.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Whatever the endings, closure does not foreclose awareness but instead opens it—to suffering, to acceptance, to reconstruction, but always to the story of what was, is, and might be.

Your experiences are what made you what you are today. So when tragedy happens in people’s lives, and things are left unsaid, it can be very unsettling. The lack of closure can linger.

It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.

Run, run, run—with everything you have—into everything you are meant to be.

Rise up and become the person you were meant to be.

Discover your strengths and then hone them and be who you are meant to be.

Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.

Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can’t second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it’s often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

I’m sure we’re gonna meet some bumps in the road, but if it’s meant to be it will happen.

I brought you guys up from less than f*ckin’ nothin’, and took you up to a championship level, only to abandon you there.

Some people were meant to be in your life to help you realize the best version of you.

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

If there wasn’t struggle you would never grow. You would never become who you’re meant to be. And let’s be honest. It would also be… super boring both in movies and in life.

A seed grows with no sound, but a tree falls with a huge noise. Destruction has noise, but creation is quiet. This is the power

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal…. It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.