Quotes About Growth

They'd taught him how to milk cows,and now they expected him to tame lions.

You know what happens when you get out of the Marine Corps, Person continues. you get you brains back.

find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

If you want it to be as perfect as it can be, then you have to learn to ride the pause. Stay in the moment.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

Do you want to change? It's the only evidence of life.

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

There was a change in both of us. We had lost a sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year.

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

If everyone at twenty realized that half his life was to be lived after forty…

Perhaps that's one of the pleasures of building, like having a son, wondering how he'll grow up. I don't know; I never built anything, and I forfeited the right to watch my son grow up. I'm homeless, childless, middle-aged, loveless, Hooper.

it was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being

Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood—she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

In my younger and more vulnerables years..

Makes sense, doesn't it?  They're investing a lot in their students.

Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your personality, as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.