Quotes About Growth

Nursing was like being under a spell: you went in very young and came out older than any span of years could make you.

I'm beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing.

A veces estaría bien volver a hacerse pequeño y a veces grande, igual que Alicia.

The days of my vanity are over and heaven knows they weren't happy enough to regret

In childhood, Lib remembered, family seemed as necessary and inescapable as a ring of mountains. One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country.

Kartais mokytojai išmoko daugiau, negu patys supranta.

When I was four I didn't know about the world, or I thought it was only stories. Then Ma told me about it for real and I thought I knowed everything. But now I'm in the world all the time, I actually don't know much, I'm always confused.

Learn even from enemies.

No entiendo por qué el dolor significa que te curas

It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which I have—it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits.

You may right now be nursing a broken heart. Friends will say, Aren't you glad you had the experience anyway? And you may say No. Eventually, unbelievably, you may not remember the boy that triggered it all. You'll recall all the places you visited, but not how you got there. You'll remember the songs that you listened to.

Now here I am, seventeen with a bullet.

Anarchism proposes to rescue the self-respect and independence of the individual from all restraint and invasion by authority. Only in freedom can man grow to his full stature. Only in freedom will he learn to think and move, and give the very best in him. Only in freedom will he realize the true force of the social bonds which knit men together, and which are the true foundation of a normal social life.

No other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality

The individual and social instincts,—the one a most potent factor for individual endeavor, for growth, aspiration, self-realization; the other an equally potent factor for mutual helpfulness and social well-being.

Experience has come to be considered the best school of life. The man or woman who does not learn some vital lesson in that school is looked upon as a dunce indeed.

Tan sólo por la educación puede el hombre llegar a ser hombre. El hombre no es más que lo que la educación hace de él.

A nadie se le obliga a morir más imbécil que cuando nació.

a small spark can start a great fire

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

Our failures are those who do not learn these things in the years they are here.

Don't be an old dirty leaf, be a neat new leaf if you are an old dirty leaf you can't feed the plant and the plant will throw you from it if you are a neat new leaf you can feed the plant and the plant will keep you with it. The old dirty leaf means bad habits. The neat new leaf means good habits. The plant means every one around you.

2 In the fourth form

Kitty at St Clare's