Quotes About Growth

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 that happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they're not pleasant things. That's living . . .

I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful...

Live and learn from fools and from sages.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Only through suffering do we learn

He who learns must suffer.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Learning comes through pain.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

we suffer and we learn. And we will know the future when it comes. Greet it too early, weep too soon. It all comes clear in the light of day.

that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the pain of pain remembered comes again and we resist.

Man must suffer to be wise. Head-winds heavy with past iol Stray his course and cooud his heart; Sorrow takes the blind soul's part-- Man grows wise against his will. For powers who rule from thrones above By ruthlessness commend their love.

Old men are always young enough to learn, with profit.

We call on the gods, and the gods well know what storms torment us, sailors whirled to nothing. But if we are to live and reach the haven, one small seed could grow a mighty tree -

I have suffered into truth (...) Time refines all things that age with time

You have learned the lesson by experience.

Time in its aging course teaches all things.

Old age that's quick to learn is always young.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

I cannot live without reading.

Pain was no longer a mystery to him, and a man familiar with pain has entered a new kind of freedom.

We are all locked in rooms in different ways, and part of growing up is finding different kinds of keys, and meeting the people who will help free you.