Quotes About Growth

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday you will be a real boy.' The Blue Fairy said that. In Pinocchio.

Sometimes. Sometimes you can change what's there, sometimes what's there changes you.

The tree cannot walk, all its going must be violence. They listen to the saw cut, the roots scream. And in eating even a stalk of celery there will be pathetic screaming.

Life is like crossing a stream on a path of stepping stones; if it wobbles step back and reassess the path but always keep moving forward.

You don't grow up gradually. You grow up in short bursts at pivotal moments, by suddenly realizing how ignorant and immature you are.

The strategy of crisis intervention must then shift to a strategy of development.

Poor kids, through no fault of their own, are less prepared by their families, their schools, and their communities to develop their God-given talents as fully as rich kids. For economic productivity and growth, our country needs as much talent as we can find, and we certainly can't afford to waste it. The opportunity gap imposes on all of us both real costs and what economists term "opportunity costs.

Jean Behra, the French driver, said: "Only those who do not move, do not die; but are they not already dead?

Gods have a way of sprouting from vacant lots.

But life isn't about finding yourself or finding anything, Dylan said, it's about creating yourself.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living. -Robert Downey Jr.

It isn't going to be better, Maggie. It's going to be different, and different is okay. You just have to learn how to embrace it. Like anything, it takes time. What you have to realize is that crying is God's way of helping us wash away the pain. So don't you ever apologize for crying; it's a reminder to us all that we're human, and that we love our family with our entire being. And that's a beautiful thing.

A smart man learns from his

Because William taught me that you can't expect to be treated as a man if you act like a child, and that every life is precious and can be lost in an instant of stupidity or bad luck. He taught me not to waste the opportunities I had, because so many young men never had a chance at them, never had the chance to grow old.

terrible twos

every cross we bear is an opportunity.

el mundo no se detiene para que uno pueda compadecerse de sí mismo. Un día te despiertas y te das cuenta de que tienes que seguir caminando, porque… porque no puedes hacer otra cosa.

I spent a career finding interesting things to do with my life, and I've lived several lifetimes as a result.

I have a lot more patience now than I did when I was twenty-five, and patience is a big part of being a parent." "I

My father knew the depth of my relationship to my mother, and he didn't begrudge us a moment of it. My relationship with him was different. He'd raised me to be a man, and he was proud of me. But to my mother—I suspect to all mothers—their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become.

When you recognize a weakness, it is a wonderful thing—because then you can ask for help.