Emotional Growth Quotes

“Charley threw Cindy on the bed and pulled a switchblade knife. He pressed the release button and a five-inch blade flipped open. “One word to anybody and your ugly dog gets his throat cut!”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

“Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Love that wounds over time is not love, it’s a lesson to grow stronger and choose yourself first.”
― Ayoub Imilouane

“I am shaped by my past loves—not defined by them, no, but refined by them.”
― Aura Biru

“Putting our effort into protecting rather than expanding our current worldview prevents our intellectual and emotional growth.”
― Robin DiAngelo, What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy

“Fly
the kites
of your soul,
let
your spirit
soar.”
― A Starry Eyed April

“The human mind houses a rich depository of positive emotions. It also builds a penitentiary that contains cells of ugly emotions. Love and laughter are two of the most esteemed emotions. Hate and jealously are the two of the most odious emotions. Hate is the rawest of all emotions, making hatred the most difficult of all emotions to curb.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The problem, however, is that you inevitably find, as I did, something still missing. In fact, the spirituality of most current discipleship models often only adds an additional protective layer against people growing up emotionally. When people have authentic spiritual experiences -- such as worship, prayer, Bible studies, and fellowship -- they mistakenly believe they are doing fine, even if their relational life is fractured and their interior world is disordered. Their apparent 'progress' then provides a spiritual reason for not doing the hard work of maturing. They are deceived. I know. I lived that way for almost seventeen years. Because of the spiritual growth in certain areas of my life and in those around me, I ignored the glaring signs of emotional immaturity that were everywhere in and around me.”
― Peter Scazzero, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature

“The rollicking tale of life rolls as a flirtatious adventure, as we venture into the seasons. The song may be slow and sweet or too fast to grip, yet through sunlight and thunder, the tale gets told.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Maybe that's just how it feels right now and she'll be able to look back on this time with some kind of detached fondness someday. That even this keen sense of missing him will be something she grows to appreciate.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“My anger drained away. He was not my adversary. His road would be hard enough without the hurt we might do each other.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Not every love is meant to last, some come to teach you your worth, not to stay and define it.”
― Ayoub Imilouane

“Sorry, ... implies that the loss will only ever be a loss. That it won't, in some way, transform into something else. Sorry is a wall between sadness and hope.”
― Sanjena Sathian, Goddess Complex

“Perfection....it functions as a form of myopia, a preoccupation with self-image that can stunt emotional growth.”
― Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith

“Dear Daughter,
Do not only grow physically. You should audaciously grow emotionally, intellectually, socially and financially if you want all-round growth and prosperity.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Dear Daughter: Short and Sweet Messages for a Queen

“Often the child’s growing up corresponds quite accurately with the mother’s resumption of her own independence, and you would agree that a mother who cannot gradually fail in this matter of sensitive adaptation is failing in another sense; she is failing (because of her own immaturity or her own anxieties) to give her infant reasons for anger. An infant that has no reason for anger, but who of course has in him (or her) the usual amount of whatever are the ingredients of aggressiveness, is in a special difficulty, a difficulty in fusing aggression in with loving.”
― Donald W. Winnicott

“Impact matters more than intention. I have hurt more people with a clear heart than I ever have with malice, but the clean lines of my intentions don't negate the impact. ⁣⠀
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I am still learning the art of a true apology. ⁣⠀
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I am still learning how to stay open. ⁣⠀
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I am still willing to learn”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“You are never, never too old to be changed by love.”
― Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

“Maybe, too, I realized right then in that moment that I'd begun to love him. Because he didn't see the world like I saw the world. He didn't see the traps. Because he made me rethink even simple words like disgusting or beautiful.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“I hadn't known I was so fragile, so delicate in motion. I didn't know Borne had loved me quite so much.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“Self-respect isn’t built on others’ approval—it’s built on honoring your own heart.”

— Chasing Horizons”
― Aira Elowen

“Acknowledging your grief is a good start. Self-honesty, yes, but do not wallow in self-pity, my friend.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“Real love isn't born of perfection. It's built on truth, on showing up as you are, on loving someone whole—shadows, scars, and all”
― Yurii Ivchenko, The Art of Being Real: A Journey to Honest Living

“Healing doesn’t ask you to forget the pain, only to carry it gently, like something once broken now shaped into strength.”
― Ayoub Imilouane, Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh

“Loving words are seeds planted in the heart, growing gardens of trust and tenderness.”
― Ayoub Imilouane, Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh

“Laughing at yourself turns shame into play, mistakes into stories, and awkwardness into authenticity.”
― Pamela Cox

“Now I know that somewhere inside of you, you understand this and are ready to forgive and let go.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“Where love dares to reach, patience lays the bridge.”
― Pamela Cox

“Boredom is not the enemy of childhood. It’s the birthplace of imagination, persistence, and quiet strength.”
― P. Pra. Sandhyaya, Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience

“Time passes slowly when you're not filling every second up with useless information. It forces you to sit with your emotions... to be a human.

I forgot how much that hurts.”
― Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost: Complete Edition