Quotes About Growth

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.

Innocence may not be all it's cracked up to be.

Children aged and moved away. Friendships aged and grew better.

During Lent you have the opportunity to think about your life alongside the life of Jesus, inviting inward transformation and then outward action.

The market doesn't sleep.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

God is our father, we are the children." "Is it time for us to grow-up.

I tried to understand how in every journey a man or woman was both hero and anti-hero at varying times. Years

Pero debe suponerse que, tal y como suelen terminar estas historias, fueron muy felices. Aunque la Princesa nunca más sería tan cándidad, ni el Príncipe tan Azul, ni los niños tan ignorantes e indefensos.

Y se olvidó del «Ulises». Y de Polizón. Y de Marco Polo. Y de…, pero, ¿a qué seguir? Ninguna de estas cosas tiene nada de extraordinaro. Pues ya advertí en un principio que, al fin y al cabo, ésta era sólo la historia de un muchacho que, un buen día, creció.

We have all grown wiser.

To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.

Life Is, a Rose.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.