Quotes About Growth

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.

Es invariablemente triste mirar con nuevos ojos las cosas en las que uno ha gastado su propio poder de adaptación.

He would be a different person henceforward, and in his raw state he had bizarre feelings of what his new self would be.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. Q.—Where

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grown in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Con el sol y la gran eclosión de las hojas que crecían en los árboles, tenía esa familiar convicción de que la vida comenzaba de nuevo con el verano

I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage.

My life, my life has to be like this. It has to keep going up.

You can't re- peat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!

Beauty means the agony of sacrifice and the end of agony

La vie reprend toujours avec le début de l'été.

I'm going to start being that. I don't like being twenty-two. I hate it more than anything in the world.

E assim, com o sol brilhando e vendo uma imensa quantidade de folhas brotando nos galhos das árvores, no mesmo ritmo espantoso daqueles filmes em câmera acelerada, senti aquela familiar convicção de que, junto com o verão, a vida recomeçava.

The way he looked at Julia made her feel attractive. For half an hour, as their sentences floated pleasantly among the scent of violets and snowdrops, forget-me-nots and pansies, her interest in him grew.

We all have souls of different ages.

Her fresh enthusiasm, her will to grow and learn, her endless faith in the inexhaustibility of romance, her courage and fundamental honesty--these things are not spoiled.

in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud.

Y entonces, gracias al sol y a los increíbles brotes de hojas que nacían en los árboles, a la manera como crecen las cosas en las películas de cámara rápida, sentí la familiar convicción de que la vida estaba empezando de nuevo con el verano

Y así, con la luz del sol y la explosión espléndida de las hojas que crecían en los árboles como crecen las cosas en las películas a cámara rápida, tuve la certeza bien conocida de que la vida vuelve a empezar con el verano.

Can't repeat the past? why of course you can!

Y así con el sol y las grandes explosiones de hojas que crecen en los árboles, tenía esa familiar convicción de que la vida comenzaba de nuevo con el verano.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees - just as things grow in fast movies - I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer