Quotes About Growth

Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness. If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.

Never have they publicly fielded the one question that truly preoccupies them: "what is it like to have been married awhile?

Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

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Ai không c?m th?y h? th?n khi nhìn l?i b?n thân n?m ngoái thì có l? ng??i Ä'ó ?? h?c không ??.

We believe, as Nietzsche put it, that 'higher is not allowed to grow out of the lower, is not allowed to have grown at all .. everything first-rate must be causa sui [the cause of itself].

Ai không c?m th?y h? th?n khi nhìn l?i b?n thân n?m ngoái thì có l? ng??i Ä'ó Ä'ã h?c không ??.

feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.

In fact, in Proust's view, we don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or even grow into complete abnormalities in the child which will be produced.

Maturity means acknowledging that Romantic love might constitute only a narrow, and perhaps rather mean-minded, aspect of emotional life, one principally focused on a quest to find love rather than to give it; to be loved rather than to love. Children

The development of the artist provides a profound model of the process of maturation.

We admire New York precisely because the traffic and crowds have been coerced into a difficult but fruitful alliance.

Rabih's love is a logical response to the discovery of complementary strengths and a range of attributes to which he aspires. He loves from a feeling of incompleteness - and from a desire to be made whole. He isn't alone in this. Albeit in different areas, Kirsten is likewise seeking to make up for deficiencies.

BOREDOM IS A new challenge and responsibility.

wanted to have read everything on the shelves at once...a precondition of becoming knowledgeable may be a resignation to, and accommodation with, the extent of one's ignorance, an accommodation which requires a sense that this ignorance need not be permanent, or indeed need not be taken personally, as a reflection of one's inherent capacities.

having acquired a skill at turning grief into ideas

Taking trauma to be a primary route to growth and depth, Rabih wants his own sadness to find an echo in his partner's character.

The point of marriage is to be usefully unpleasant – at least at crucial times. Together we embrace a set of limitations on one kind of freedom, the freedom to run away, so as to protect and strengthen another kind, the shared ability to mature and create something of lasting value, the pains of which are aligned to our better selves.

We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

We cannot be taught wisdom, we have to discover it for ourselves by a journey which no one can undertake

We need to tell ourselves a little more of the truth because we pay too high a price for our concealments. We cut ourselves off from possibilities of growth. We shut out large portions of our minds and end up uncreative, tetchy, and defensive, while others around us have to suffer our irritability, gloom, manufactured cheerfulness, or defensive rationalizations.

A precondition of becoming knowledgeable may be a resignation and accommodation to the extent of one's ignorance, an accommodation which requires a sense that this ignorance need not be permanent, or indeed need not be taken personally, as a reflection of one's inherent capacities.