Grow
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I'm doing my best to raise my son and give him a nurturing, loving, and caring environment so he can grow up and be the best version of himself.
Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.
Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground — as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.
Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.