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“A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.”

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“What must I do now?” Mrs. Muller considered her silently for a while. “You are still a child. You must go where you are told and do as you are told. But it won’t always be so. Soon you will be in charge of yourself. Until that time: Be aware. Listen. Look. Touch. Smell. And remember. But for now, you must go home.”

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“I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred how many will do anything truly worthwhile, write a play, paint a painting that will hang in a gallery, find a cure for herpes? Two of us, maybe three? And how many will find true love? About the same. And enlightenment? Maybe one. The rest of us will make compromises, find excuses, someone or something to blame, and hold that over our hearts like a pendant on a chain.”

Growth Young Adult Insight Teenager Maturity Coming Of Age Graduation

Book:White Oleander

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“You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.”

Source: Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”

Book:Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

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“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”

Growth Enlightenment Awakening

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“I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason,” the yogi Krishnan told him. “Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.”

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Book:The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

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“I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”

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