Quotes About Growth

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Life makes everybody strange, if you keep living long enough

she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

Young things mainly belong to themselves. How they grow up depends on who gets attached to them.

He didn't tell Newt all he knew. He didn't tell him that even when life seemed easy, it kept on getting harder.

Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

Jake, you're a dern grasshopper," Augustus said. "You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you're talking California.

Why would you want to keep in practice being wrong?" Call asked. "I'd think it would be something you'd try to avoid." "You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it," Augustus said. "If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day—that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.

I don't know anything about babies," he said. "No, and you've never lived any place but Arkansas," Clara said. "But you ain't stupid and you ain't nailed down. You can live other places and you can learn about children—people dumber than you learn about them.

Earlier in his life he had done many foolish things in order to convince himself that he was not worthless

The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.

he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't.

When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life.

Without risk there was no power, not for a grown man.

Francis Goes to the Army.

Larry McMurtry

Aurora could not recall that she had been precisely heartbroken - her heart had never had time to get focused exactly - but for several years thereafter she did feel that life was a comedown in some respects.

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If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day— that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.

You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it," Augustus said. "If you only come face-to-face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day—that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.

If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes. Pea Eye was a prime example. Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

I'll have to get over this sooner or later, Louis thought. Why not now? A friend had taught him this cantrip, this bit of magic for recovering from shock or grief. Sometimes it worked.

Nothing lasts. You can't do any one thing for two hundred years. A marriage, a career, a hobby—they're good for twenty years, and maybe you go through a phase more than once. I did some experimental medicine. I wrote a big chunk of that documentary on the Trinoc culture that won a—

Taking a lifetime to grow up.