Quotes About Growth

But all our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

You can plant a dream.

SPIRIT RULES SECRETLY ALONE THE BODY ACHIEVES NOTHINGis something you knowinstinctively at fourteen and can still remember even with hell in your headat sixteen.

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

26. Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia.

As in childhood we live sweeping close to the sky and now, what dawn is this.

From girl to woman to who I am now, from love to anger to this cold marrow, from fire to shelter to fire.

Seguir siendo humano es romper un impedimento. Quiérelo si eres capaz. Quiérelo si te atreves.

then he met Herakles and the kingdoms of his life all shifted down a few notches

Our spiritual journey is—or ought to be—a deepening realization of the possibility of sainthood in all of us.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

If you think about it, the youngest part of the tree is in the very middle. It is the little dot that will widen into a ring, next year. The youngest part of any tree is the heart.

There were girls at school whose families grew to a robust five or six. There were girls with seven or eight-which was thought a little enthusiastic - and then there were the pathetic ones like me, who had parents that were just helpless to it, and bred as naturally as they might shit.

They are surprisingly tall--eight-year-olds. They are surprisingly like real people. Of course your own babies are always real to you, they are all there from the word go, but even strangers' children look like proper people by the aged of eight...

People , she used to think, do not change, they are merely revealed.

And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.

Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is!

Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!