Quotes About Growth

Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged!

planting dates accurately, begin collecting your own garden notes. Each season, review your notes to detect patterns, then adjust

becoming slower and sweeter. She

she reached fifty-nine, she felt Tanner's arm relax and loosen his possessive hold.

Aprende mucho en el colegio, Txiki. Tú aprende y aprende. No pares. Si no aprendes estás perdido, hazme caso.

Una frase de C.S. Lewis en el Moleskine: «La tarea del educador moderno no es cortar selvas, sino regar desiertos».

Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.

I try to shed what I've learned, I try to forget the way I was taught to remember

I do not evolve, I simply journey.

Primeiro estranha-se. Depois entranha-se.

Mi-am cucerit, puÅ£in câte puÅ£in, teritoriul interior care urma s? fie al meu. Mi-am cerut, unul dup? altul, întinsurile de mlaÅŸtin? în care nu mai r?m?sese nimic din mine. Åži am scos la iveal? fiinÅ£a mea infinit?, dar a trebuit s? m? scot pe mine din mine cu forcepsul". - Fernando Pessoa, Cartea neliniÅŸtirii

Afinal, se coisas boas se vão é para que coisas melhores possam vir. Esqueça o passado, desapego é o segredo!

Para cualquier espíritu científicamente constituido, ver en una cosa más de lo que puede verse es ver menos la cosa en sí. Lo que materialmente crece, espiritualmente disminuye.

Teach nothing, for you still have everything to learn.

The vegetal academy of silences

Now he is something anyone can be.

To fight for change is to be incapable of changing oneself. To reform is to be beyond repair.*

Todo cuanto vive, vive porque cambia; cambia porque pasa; y, porque pasa, muere.

Cultiv oroarea mea fa?? de acÅ£iune ca pe o plant? de ser?.M? felicit pe mine însumi pentru disidenÅ£a mea fa?? de via??.

Thus we represent a painful version of the argonauts' bold motto: the journey is what matters, not life.

Today I have only reality, and I cannot play with that … Poor child exiled in his manhood! Why did I have to grow up?

More things have died in me than just my past.

When a man reaches the age of lucidity, one of his main concerns is to actively and thoughtfully shape himself into the image and likeness of his ideal.

How is it that I have advanced only to become what I already was? How could I know myself today when I did not yesterday?