Quotes About Growth

Journeys are the midwives of thought.

Children are always described from a third-person perspective ("Isn't Chloe a cute/ugly/intelligent/stupid kid?") before they gain the ability to influence their own definitions. Overcoming childhood could be understood as an attempt to correct the false stories of others. But the struggle against distortion continues beyond childhood.

the obstacle to our good development is not usually arrogance, but a lack of confidence.

I note at the age of ten a fully developed ability not quite to enjoy myself, a capacity I have retained intact ever since.

Silläkin riskillä että kuulostan paistilta, kuningatar sanoi, kirjat tekevät ihmisestä kypsemmän.

Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

Stava anche scoprendo che un libro tira l'altro; ovunque si voltava si aprivano nuove porte e le giornate erano troppo corte per leggere quanto avrebbe voluto. Ma era dispiaciuta, e anche mortificata, al pensiero di tutte le occasioni che si era lasciata sfuggire.

Reading was not doing… and as old as she was, she was still a doer.

Books are not about passing the time.They're about other lives.

Books are wonderful, aren't they? … At the risk of sounding like a piece of steak, they tenderize one. … he concurred again, but had no notion what she was on about.

It was almost a side-effect that this caused me to educate myself to a degree which was beyond anything a school could hope to achieve. My own appetite for knowledge and reading and connection had led me, and that is how education works, not by spoon-feeding, but by stimulating the appetite so that children cannot wait to feed themselves.

With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized, I am more than I was an hour ago.

She learned what 'ohana truly meant, and that she was a part of it. She began to understand that none of this could replace or usurp the family she had always known, but only enriched what she already possessed. With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized: I am more than I was an hour ago.

She began to understand that none of this could replace or usurp the family she had always known, but enriched what she already possessed. With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized, I am more than I was an hour ago.

God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brain and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up.

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold.

Temporary discomfort pales in the face of long-term awakening.

Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.

Everything that happens ultimately serves us. An experience might not appear to be perfect according to the ego's plan, but it may be supremely perfect according to Spirit's plan.

Be at peace with your choices. They all serve you.

What was, was. What is, is. Be true to what is, rather than clinging to an old form. Then you will create new meaningful relationships that match who you are and what you want.

Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.

Each day move a little more from tightening to lightening.

when the student is ready, the teacher appears