Quotes About Growth

I've found that I can always do the things that people do in books. Really they are the only things I can do.

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part. It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. This, too, was quite characteristic of Amory.

The span of his seventy-five years had acted as a magic bellows—the first quarter-century had blown him full with life, and the last had sucked it all back.

My life... my life has got to be like this. It's got to keep going up.

Ne gariptir, ac?dan kaç?nmaya çal???rken, bazen bizi o noktaya getiren ayak izlerinin bir bir üzerinden geçmek gerekebilir.

New friends," he said, as if it were an important point, "can often have a better time together than old friends." With

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

It is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Amory became thirteen, rather tall and slender, and more than ever on to his Celtic mother. He had tutored occasionally—the idea being that he was to keep up, at each place taking up the work where he left off, yet as no tutor ever found the place he left off, his mind was still in very good shape.

No, Amory objected. I've lost half my personality in a year. Not a bit of it! scoffed Monsignor. You've lost a great amount of vanity and that's all.

Te mondod folyton, hogy az embernek egyre több dolgot kell megismernie, és ha ezt abbahagyja, olyan lesz, mint a többi ember, és hogy addig kell elérnie valamit, míg ezt a folytonos megismerést abba nem hagyja.

You used to say a man knows things and when he stops knwing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

Just do everything we didn't do and you will be perfectly safe.

I'm not sure what I'll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

After the sureties of youth there sets in a period of intense and intolerable complexity.

De tudod, az a helyzet, hogy a tudás olyan végtelen… és minél többet tud az ember, annál több tudnivalóról szerez tudomást, ami már éppen csak hogy karnyújtásnyira van és ez így megy folyvást.

The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third--before long the best lines cancel out--and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture.

A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart. Already