Quotes About Growth

With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. [...] Part of you died each year when leaves fell from the tress and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.

But walking down the stairs feeling each stair carefully and holding to the banister he thought, I must get her away and get her away as soon as I can without hurting her. Because I am not doing too well at this. That I can promise you. But what else can you do? Nothing, he thought. There's nothing you can do. But maybe, as you go along, you will get good at it.

Thank you very much," the girl said. "You know that another woman, or a woman in memory, is a terrible thing for a young girl to deal with when she is still without experience.

Dizem que as sementes daquilo que havemos de realizar se encontram já todas dentro de nós, mas sempre me pareceu que, naqueles que troçam da vida, as sementes se encontram cobertas de melhor terra e de uma percentagem mais alta de adubo.

The world breaks everyone and later many are strong at the broken places.

That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.

There isn't any need to deny everything there's been just because you are going to lose it.

Certi altri posti non erano così buoni, ma forse eravamo noi a non essere così buoni quando eravamo là.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

the world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places

El mundo rompe a todos y después muchos, son fuertes en los lugares rotos.

But was it corruption or was it merely that you lost the naïveté that you started with? Would it not be the same in anything? Who else

Por entonces, ya había descubierto que todo, lo bueno y lo malo, deja un vacío cuando se interrumpe. Pero si se trata de algo malo, el vacío va llenándose por sí solo. Mientras que el vacío de algo bueno solo puede llenarse descubriendo algo mejor.

We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master

You never look old. -The body is that which grows old. The spirit is neither older, nor much wiser.

He wants to in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he'll be powerful in change.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know

He wants to stay in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he'll be powerful in change.

You will not be nineteen always

Es un oficio bastante malo,' he repeated, 'loving me.' 'Yes. But it is the only one I have.' 'Don't you write any more poetry?' 'It was young girl poetry. Like young girl painting. Everyone is talented at a certain age.' At what age do you become old in this country, the Colonel thought. No one is ever old in Venice, but they grow up very fast. I grew up very rapidly in the Veneto myself and I was never as old as I was at twenty-one.

Non c'è nulla di nobile nell'essere superiore a qualcun altro. La vera nobiltà consiste nell'essere superiore a chi eravamo ieri.

because I've lived through so much,I can now enjoy in everything