"You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself."

Growth, Responsibility, Independence, Life

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"You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself."

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"The cost of growth is always a small act of violence."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Growth, Sacrifice, Pain, Change

"What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Growth, Dream, Difference, Expectation, Success

"You can't BREED at a place where you can't BREATHE. Therefore, FIX yourself where you FIT."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Breathing, Fit, Comfort

"You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by the power put in you!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Learning, Action, Laurels, Empowerment

"Accept corrections and you'll improve and increase."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Correction, Improvement, Learning

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Growth, Difficulty, Progress, Learning, Effort

"He who doesn't want to face his challenges shall always face challenges!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Challenges, Life, Strength, Choices

"Everybody want to experience some form of pleasure in whatever they are doing and one of the sure ways of doing that is by seeing increase in your endeavors or results."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Growth, Pleasure, Success, Endeavors

"Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it's cage, it will be hard to capture it again!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Character, Integrity, Failure

"Without adversity and trials we may never know what we are capable of."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Adversity, Trials, Capability, Strength

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"I think it's neat you do what you want. Not enough chicks do that, if you ask me - just tell society and their expectations to go fuck themselves. If more women did that, we'd be better off."

Growth

"It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that."

Loss

"I had problems a therapist couldn't solve, grief that no man in a room could ameliorate."

Therapy

"I cried and I cried and I cried. I wasn't crying because I was happy. I wasn't crying because I was sad. I wasn't crying because of my mother or my father or Paul. I was crying because I was full...I didn't feel like a big fate idiot anymore. And I didn't feel like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen. I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world too."

Release

"Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true."

Aging

"As close as we'd been when we were together, we were closer in our unraveling, telling each other everything at last, words that seemed to us might never have been spoken between two human beings before, so deep we went, saying everything that was beautiful and ugly and true."

Affection

"Saying it's hard is ultimately a justification to do whatever seems like the easiest thing to do - have the affair, stay at that horrible job, end a friendship over a slight, keep loving someone who treats you terribly."

Identity

"I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on this story was a form of mind control, but for the most part, it worked. Every time I heard a sound of unknown origin or felt something horrible cohering in my imagination, I pushed it away. I simply did not let myself become afraid. Fear begets fear. Power begets Power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid."

Fear

"Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on this story was a form of mind control, but for the most part, it worked."

Fear

"But thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom."

Frustration