Quotes About Growth

It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

It's a bittersweet road we parents travel. We start with total commitment to a small, helpless human being. Over the years we worry, plan, comfort, and try to understand. We give our love, our labor, our knowledge, and our experience—so that one day he or she will have the inner strength and confidence to leave us.

Even when you were completely wrong about something, the journey into your wrongness was always fucking interesting.

Your body is a blade sharpened by tears

no conspiracy can survive exponential growth.

Age hasn't matured you. It's made those traits that were ticks in the twenty-five-year-old into full-blown affectations in the thirty-eight-year-old.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

It's the feeling of being an eternal student that keeps this profession interesting.

Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

Giacomina had taught her daughter that you must dig constantly for meaning in the sorrow of this life, and that this sorrow must galvanize you, not define you.

Aprendi que viajar ainda é a melhor forma de alterar a vida, mudar as ideias e abraçar a inspiração, mas devemos estar de olhos bem abertos e ansiosos por agarrá-la, ou é um desperdício.

This is something that I have learned at PA that I would have never learn at home because I have my own room and I'm an only. Nobody has it easy, not even the Great and Tall Blond One

Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.

I want you to realize that this whole thing is just a grand adventure. A fine show. The trick is to play in it and look at it at the same time. . . . The more kinds of people you see, the more things you do, and the more things happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they're not pleasant things. That's living . . . ~ Edna Ferber's SO BIG

The young have everything but wisdom.

She learned that time could not be the measurement for the things that lasted. Sometimes what endured was that which changed us in a matter of moments, not years.

The wise man leaves the past behind like a pair of boots he has outgrown.

The wise man leaves the past behind like a pair of boots he has outgrown. Ciro

But now I know that youth isn't waiting for you on the other side of wisdom.

you must dig constantly for meaning in the sorrow of this life, and that this sorrow must galvanize you, not define you.

When Matelda was young, she chased time to get what she wanted. Now she chased time to hold on to it.