Growth

“The right person does not make life perfect; they make it more recognizable as your own.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Courage rarely feels ready. It simply takes the next honest step.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life

“Family are our first witnesses—and sometimes the people kind enough to let us revise the story.”

— ToastBuddy original

“A new chapter does not ask you to become someone else; it asks for the next honest version of you.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Growth is not forgetting where you started; it is carrying the proof that you can begin again.”

— ToastBuddy original

“When I doubted the work, you could name the parts I had already learned to do.”

— ToastBuddy original

“You were willing to say, 'I am new at this,' in front of people whose respect you wanted.”

— ToastBuddy original

“I can hear how much you have grown in the questions you now ask.”

— ToastBuddy original

“That imperfect first attempt deserves a place beside everything you can do now.”

— ToastBuddy original

“You let us watch you change your mind, which made it easier for the rest of us to learn.”

— ToastBuddy original

“It is a pleasure to meet the newer you in the company of people who knew the earlier one.”

— ToastBuddy original

“I hope your next achievement includes something you learned slowly enough to keep.”

— ToastBuddy original

“You found a smaller version of the task you could do, and started there.”

— ToastBuddy original

“One measure of your leadership is how many people now feel able to take responsibility beside you.”

— ToastBuddy original

“Our traditions have lasted because we have let new people add something to them.”

— ToastBuddy original

“You left me enough room to make a small mistake and enough company to understand it.”

— ToastBuddy original