Quotes About Growth

Cultivo el odio por la acción como una flor de invernadero. Presumo ante mí mismo de la propia disidencia mía de la vida.

Bendita a dor e a pena pelas quais o Mundo se transforma.

When I was little I didn't know I'd grow up. Or I knew but didn't feel it. Time at that age doesn't exist. Each day it's the same kitchen table With the same backyard outside, And sadness, when felt, Is sadness, but you aren't sad.

De tudo, ficaram três coisas: a certeza de que ele estava sempre começando, a certeza de que era preciso continuar e a certeza de que seria interrompido antes de terminar. Fazer da interrupção um caminho novo. Fazer da queda um passo de dança, do medo uma escada, do sono uma ponte, da procura um encontro.

En la vida hay que cometer inevitablemente todos los errores en primera persona, pero la literatura nos permite embellecerlos con aciertos ajenos...

libros que trepaban por las butacas como maleza en la jungla. Nuestro

Progresar es tanto innovar como conservar lo conseguido.

Es siempre triste mirar a través de ojos nuevos las cosas en que uno ha gastado sus capacidades de adaptación.

Grace changes us and change is painful.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.

W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.

Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of Wise Blood that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote Perhaps I am prematurely arrogant . . .

A faith that just accepts is a child's faith and all right for children, but eventually you have to grow religiously as every other way, though some never do. What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. ... remember that these things are mysteries and that if they were such that we could understand them, they wouldn't be worth understanding. A God you understood would be less than yourself.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

You remain what you are. - Everything That Rises Must Converge

Anyone who has lived to the age of eighteen has enough stories to last a lifetime.

Dissatisfaction began to grow so great in Parker that there was no containing it outside of a tattoo. It had to be his back. There was no help for it. A dim half-formed inspiration began to work in his mind. He visualized having a tattoo put there that Sarah Ruth would not be able to resist—a religious subject.

I come a long way since I would believe anything. I come halfway around the world.

He was four or five.

Sé fiel a ti mismo, pero avanza hacia arriba, hacia una mayor conciencia y un amor más profundo. En la cima encontrarás junto a ti a otros que han ascendido de un modo similar, pues todo lo que sube, converge»

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Anyone who has survived childhood, has enough material to write for the rest of her life.