Quotes About Growth

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

Through All That Happens As you unfold as an artist, just keep on, quietly and earnestly, growing through all that happens to you. You cannot disrupt this process more violently than by looking outside yourself for answers that may only be found by attending to your innermost feeling. Paris, February 17, 1903 Letters to a Young Poet

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has; that is why the gods are always young.

Parents are only good as parents at a certain stage of their children's lives, she reflected.

Old times, sad times. I feel better about them now than I did then.

Perhaps what I was registering was nothing more than the passage of time, to which one should pay great attention, lest one remain fixed in past expectations, without noticing how foolish one had become.

nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt. But perhaps it becomes a duty to abandon the stock of time that one carries within oneself, to discard it in favour of the present, so that one's embrace may be turned outwards to the world in which one has made one's home.

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

Greenness hangs, drips and sways from every branch and twig and frond in the surging luxuriance of July.

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

As children, in our own school of life, we soak up clues about our world just as eagerly as small squirrels. Exposure to children's books provides verbal and visual material to help us along the way. So subtle and varied can the lessons be that it may take years before we use everything we absorbed.

Jerry J. Mallett: From it I learned that it is never too late to have your life changed by a children's book.

My joy may be diminished now, but I am still alive to be more joyful ahead.

Never try to change a person. We all evolve as life goes on. Love people as they are.

It sure did grow big snowballs, didn't it?

Just because someone grows up shouldn't mean that the people who helped him get that way no longer counted.

Change does come.

Are you happy?" "I think I may be going to be happy." Remember, things do not force, forge or fashion. They fall into place

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

They were getting to know not only the details of each other's lives, but getting to know one another - a different thing. The process of getting to know anyone is not merely a matter of listening, watching, and understanding. M. Maurois has pointed out how, in any new relationship, we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.

We were never soulmates, you know. We never lived in each other's pockets. But in a way, that was why it worked. We were so different that we learned from each other, there was something new to discuss when we did come together. But

Sometimes he asked Sandy questions, not expecting much of an answer, but because he wanted to make him think, hoping that it might become a habit.

Doubt was a cancer that grew unbidden.