Growing Pains Quotes

• Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

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• Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

  Jenna Elfman

  Pain, Thinking, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.

  Anne Northup

  Pain, Growing, Sometimes

  "Freshman Rep. Anne Northup Wins GOP Attention with Flair" by Susan Crabtree, www.questia.com.

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• I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Sympathy, Wisdom, Pain

  Wisława Szymborska (1981). “Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems”, p.205, Princeton University Press

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• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Growth hurts because change isn't easy, that's why they call it growing pains

  Tony Gaskins

  Hurt, Pain, Growth

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• You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Positive, Happiness, Meaningful

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• Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Pain, Dark, Light

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• When you go through growing pains and learning experiences, it makes you tougher down the road.

  Brian Roberts

  Pain, Growing, Learning Experience

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• People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritual substance.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Spiritual, Pain, Reality

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• Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Positive, Courage, Mistake

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• Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.

  Fran Drescher

  Pain, Order, Chinese

  Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”

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• Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains.

  Tim Roth

  Pain, Firsts, Growing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Pain, Doubt, Growth

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• So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.

  Mary J. Blige

  Pain, Mistake, Order

  "Mary J. Blige Says She's 'Just Fine' With Her New Album, Losing 'Umbrella' To Rihanna". Interview with Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. October 10, 2007.

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• My prayer for the new year is that I may have the courage and the stamina to let Life happen to me, to accept its joys and successes, and to take in stride the learning that stretches us and the growing pains. Perhaps, to put it simply, my wish for the New Year is: may we love more, live more, laugh more. And so may you!

  Jean Hersey

  New Year, Prayer, Pain

  Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

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• Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Jesus, Pain, Disappointment

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• Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• I always knew that 'Growing Pains' was not going to go on forever. I remember thinking, 'I'm going to enjoy every moment of this.

  Joanna Kerns

  Pain, Thinking, Forever

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• This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

  Aldo Leopold

  Pain, Disappointment, Mistake

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.53, Island Press

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• I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn't have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn't want anything to do with the girl who was starting the drama club.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Girl, Pain, Drama

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

  Kirk Cameron

  Girlfriend, Pain, Years

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• Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. And, well, we're feeling those growing pains today. Doing big things is hard. All of us. All of us, myself included, we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment, what we could have done to do it better.

  Paul Ryan

  Pain, Party, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The growing pains of being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.

  Matt Dillon

  Pain, People, Trying

  "Dillon Bucks Wayward-Youth Roles". The Arizona Republic, June 24, 2005.

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• It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.

  Eliza Coupe

  Growing Up, Pain, My Boyfriend

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