Quotes About Growth

Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams meant everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.

Oh, don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

If you were out in a great big woods with other trees all around you and little mosses and Junebells growing over your roots and a brook not far away and birds singing in you branches, you could grow, couldn't you? But you can't where you are. I know just exactly how you feel, little trees.

Ah, insan?n hedeflerinin olmas? harika bir ÅŸey. Bir sürü hedefim olduÄŸu için çok mutluyum. Üstelik hedeflerin asla bir sonu yok gibi görünüyor; en iyi taraf? da bu. Bir hedefine ula??r ulaÅŸmaz, hemen daha yukar?da ???ldayan baÅŸka bir tanesini görüyorsun. Bu durum hayat? son derece ilginç k?l?yor.

Well, they don't talk to me very much, I said. You see, they're all grown up, and they have grown-up games like whist and lawn tennis, and talking, you know, just for the sake of talking (this seemed a strange pursuit to me).

I was no longer satisfied with the small change of experience, which had hitherto contented me. I wanted to deal in larger sums.

Telling a story is like sowing a seed—you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches that soar up in the sky. But it is a peculiar sowing, for you will never know whether your seed sprouts or dies.

There is only one realm in which characters defy natural laws and remain the same—the realm of bad writing. And its the fixed nature of the characters which makes the writing bad. If a character in a short story, novel, or play occupies the same position at the end as the one he did at the beginning, that story, novel, or play is bad.

Four months later, their mother was living with Buddhist nuns and Dagou had bulked up by thirty pounds.

Because he isn't cherished, he's allowed to aim beyond his parents' petty goals. He can leave all of them behind.

What losing does is, it restores the perspective.

Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

Make every obstacle an opportunity." And that's what we did.

Make every negative into a positive," as my mother says. Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not.

Are we going to design and build circumstances that enlarge possibilities for growth in human freedom, sociability, intelligence, creativity, and self-government? Or are we headed in an altogether different direction?

An environment of fast growth can cover a multitude of sins, but an era of slow growth will magnify every shortcoming of every person in the business, especially the leaders.

If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth" (1 John 1:8). It seems God leads us through failure toward maturity, rather than doing whatever is needed for us to move past ongoing failure.

Churches that never deal with the real fight that following My Son requires often grow large but mostly with small Christians.

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

Nora Dunn When faced with no real friends, she went out into the world and made some, and to watch her try to create a life with meaning was touching.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. I never learned anything while I was talking.

All your life has been a journey to find an identity.