Quotes About Growth

Interesting, is it not?" I must be better, I thought: his gnomic utterings were irritating me again.

Novels are written—as life is lived—One Day At A Time.

Well, you live and you learn, and generally in that order. I

People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all.

Perhaps I've just mounted the initial stamp on a page that used to be blank. Perhaps I've filled the final space on that page. Or, as is more often the case, perhaps I've added a fifteenth stamp to a page, thus reducing its number of blank spaces from nineteen to eighteen. In any event, I'm looking at progress—and I take a moment to enjoy it.

Don and I took Bill Coons and made a writer out of him.

Death is not always an occasion for sorrow.

When I decided in my mid-fifties to return to a hobby I'd abandoned twenty years earlier, I didn't know what sort of a collector I'd be. As a boy I'd started out collecting everything, then narrowed my focus to British Empire—specifically, to the Scott Specialty Album for Great Britain, British Europe, and British Oceania. In my mid-twenties I'd begun collecting Benelux as well, and in my mid-thirties, when my first marriage ended, I sold everything.

If today is a consummation devoutly to be wished, how can I regret anything that helped bring it into being?

Lovers are never equally matched - do you think? One always overshadows the other and stunts his or her growth so that the overshadowed one must always be tormented by a desire to escape, to be free to grow. Surely this is the only tragic thing about love?

If you have tendencies you've got to have scope

He inhabits now that part of himself Which lay formerly desolate and uncolonised. - Mark of Patmos

The seeds of future events are carried within ourselves. They are implicit in us and unfold according to the laws of their own nature

But then is not life itself a fairy-tale which we lose the power of apprehending as we grow? No matter.

One learns nothing from those who return our love.

First the young, like vines, climb up the dull supports of their elders who feel their fingers on them, soft and tender; then the old climb down the lovely supporting bodies of the young into their proper deaths.

Idle to imagine falling in love as a correspondence of mind, of thoughts; it is the simultaneous firing of two spirits engaged in the autonomous act of growing up.

Cheer up, me boyo, it takes a lifetime to grow. People haven't the patience any more.

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

If he ever left me, I wouldn't even be sad; no, 'cause there's a blessing in every lesson, and I'm glad that I knew him at all.

Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.