Quotes About Growth

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

I actually plan to mess up my life and start over every seven years. That way, I'll never get in a rut. I read somewhere that most of your cells only live about seven years anyway, so in theory you literally are a new person; I figure that's the best time to start over.

The changes we swear to fight off with savage claws in our twenties end up creeping over us like a rising tide in our thirties.

Maybe that's another thing you learn, as you get older—the value of people who know your secrets, who understand not just your present-tense persona but the younger, more reckless, more innocent version of who you used to be.

He realized that this tragedy was meant to be and knew intrinsically that from it there were life lessons to be learned by either her or those involved. Such was the way of life for humans.

Human souls come here to learn from the experiences of living life. The good, the bad, and the ugly things they couldn't possibly learn by experience in a perfect heaven. Only by coming to earth can they truly gain knowledge of anything negative.

The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden fairy weight of seeds, grown in sweetness that is also a darkness. Like treasure in a cave.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Well. What can we do, except try to do better?

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.

Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .' He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. 'They change back.

One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.

An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison.

Life is a series of things we would rather not do.

The wiser a man is, the more he stands ready to be educated.

Doing better next time. That's what life is.

But that's what growing up is, maybe. Realising what a fucking arse you've been.

the more you learn the more you understand the size of your own ignorance.

The faster you run from the past, the faster it catches you. All you can do is turn to face it. Embrace it. Try and meet the future wiser for it.