“Suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years go? What would she think of me now?’”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“I still have a lot of growing to do and I know there is more room for it in your absence.”— Trista Mateer, amazon.com
“The stubble on your face is a quiet reminder of how much growing we have left to do.”— Fortesa Latifi, amazon.com
“To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.”— Holly Elissa Bruno, amazon.com
“Gather the scattered fragments of your broken heart. Pick them up off the floor and weave them into the tapestry of your life so that when you find the light again-and you will- you'll remember that love can only be lost because it was once found. You are healing and you are growing and everything y…”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“Every experience is we go through is there to teach us, to humble us, an to help us grow.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“An essential part of actualization is recognizing your spine, its exact longitudes and latitudes, its corresponding weaknesses where the algae grows.”— Claire Bowman, narrativemagazine.com
“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“I still fall on my face sometimes and I can't color inside the lines, cause I'm perfectly incomplete, I'm still working on my masterpiece. And I, I wanna hang with the greatest, got a way to go, but it's worth the wait. No, you haven't seen the best of me, I'm still working on my masterpiece.”— Jessie J, amazon.com
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”— Muhammad Ali, newspapers.com
“You ruin your life by tolerating it. At the end of the day you should be excited to be alive. When you settle for anything less than what you innately desire, you destroy the possibility that lives inside of you, and in that way you cheat both yourself and the world of your potential.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“1,500 years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”— Tommy Lee Jones, amazon.com