Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.

Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all...

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

My family… always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

People can only grow, stagnate, or regress. Which one are you doing? I’m both growing and stagnating, because I’m learning every day, so I’m growing, but since learning has become a habit and I do it all the time, I’m technically stagnating. I’m stagnating upwards.

Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.

A moment of time is the universe’s fastest growing quantity.

Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the...

It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.

A mother is a child’s first looking glass into the world.

When I first started on ‘Medium,’ they didn’t like me growing my hair too long. But I was freaked out when the hairdresser cut off even an inch.

What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.

I haven’t had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

I’ve always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

I’ve always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.

Don’t let your pride get in your way of surrounding yourself with people who are smarter than you. Life is a continuous journey of learning and growing.

Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.

We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

Growing up doesn’t mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.

When I was growing up, I wanted to do Letterman and I loved that live, in-studio model. I still would do something like that.

One of my very favorite television shows growing up was ‘The Prisoner.’

I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook – what I want the track to be about melodically – and then I’ll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us...

Growing up as a young kid, I was in a restaurant. So, you know, I always had a very good understanding of the nuances. And in a way, that was a bad thing. Because it kind of programmed me to believe that if you’re going have a restaurant, this is what you need to do,...

I have such fond memories of watching ‘Doctor Who’ when I was a kid and growing up, that if I’ve left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I’ve done my job.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn’t easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren’t strong you’re a victim and you’re not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul...

You haunt my days and dreams.

Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn’t want me to succeed and didn’t want the best for me.

I wasn’t aware of Green Arrow as a kid. My thing growing up was wrestling.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, in an atmosphere of trust.

Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path — and that person could even be you.

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up – I couldn’t get enough.

I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.

I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. ‘Bambi’ gave me nightmares.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again.

I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.

He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.

I’m growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.

Six Beliefs That Set the Course of Your Life1. If you don’t believe the impossible can happen, then you are right.2. When you feel like you are less than others, then you are right.3. When you believe what you have and how you were raised keeps you from having everything you ever dreamed of, you...