May Sarton Quotes

There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

There is no growth without change, and there is no change without loss.

Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

In so many things, growth comes from adversity.

Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

We're always evolving. It forces us to grow.

Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.

It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn't struggle is the one who doesn't grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign - celebrate your struggle.

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Growth always involves the risk of failure.

You're just always growing. I feel like it's been very fast growth, but super exciting and I know I'll look back and feel like 'Yes, things were stressful, but it was also such an exciting time.'