Quotes About Growth

It's a big world and there are so many things to do. Why should we repeat the same thing? Of course, there are some people who are getting better and better in one direction. But I love continuous experiments and adventure, and to learn and grow from that.

A los veinte años yo calculaba, medía, pesaba y planificaba. Casi cuarenta después, era capaz de apretarme la nariz y tirarme a la pileta sin haber averiguado antes si había agua o no. Pero con los ojos abiertos. Me gustaba más a mí misma ahora que a los veinte años. Una de dos, o la experiencia me había dado lo que la sabiduría popular atribuye a la juventud, o la sabiduría popular es una mierda. Me incliné por la segunda posibilidad.

Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

I don't have a lot of words, but I have a lot of faith. I know the road feels low and winding, and we seem to need the pain to cut to the core, to emerge from the sleepwalk of despair and feel through the numbness of disconnect and indifference. But if we let ourselves feel this, we will be better for it.

She was too young, too soft and new, to come to terms with these wild beings whose minds veered at crazy angles from the short, straight, smooth lines of her own experience.

For now my skin was my sole capital in the world and today I'd make my first investment.

He knew it was too late to turn back and brusquely reminded himself he was no child, now, to be frightened of his own fancies.

I raised you up to fly to the heavens, not to brood over a clutch of eggs!

But you are mine no longer. You are a man, with a man's concerns, and

Indeed, a great life can come from small beginnings.

The stakes—what your protagonist is risking—should increase in significance as the story progresses.

Being a parent is amazing.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.

One is a young untried creature and then one day looks back and sees that young creature very far behind one; so distant that one can barely believe that one has journeyed so far.

When we are young we all look through our elders, to see what lies beyond. And when we see what is there, we are the elders ourselves.

Brains are like sponges... If allowed to remain moist for too long they become moldy.

Feeling willing is the first step. Recognizing that something should change shows a willingness and openness to doing things differently.

Part of you recognizes you should change something about your actions, but another part is still attached to the old ways, no matter how uncomfortable they are. This is normal. This is part of being human.

it matters not what we have been but this an always this: what we shall be.

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.