Growth Quotes

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

My lyrics are a complete 180 from what they used to be in terms of maturity. And I have a kid, so that changes everything.

Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.

I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn’t wait to get back to Ardmore.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard.

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, ‘I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink, put you to bed when you’ve had too much to drink. Oh, it could be so nice to grow old with you, I wanna grow old with you.