Quotes About Growth

I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.

A man has to have a purpose in life. I know this now, but it took me the first score years of my life to learn it. In that I scarcely think myself unique.

She could be shaped by her past without being trapped by it" p. 283

Pain and perfection. It was the only path to redemption he knew.

I have never been wise.

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss.

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

Changes were the essence of life; one should not dread change.

There can be much more to a decision than you can know at this stage of your life.

Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey, and when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning.' Althea

Do you ever get over it?" Did you ever get past it?" He asked me so earnestly for there to be a tomorrow that did not possess that shadow. I told the hardest truth I had ever had to utter. "No. You don't. I didn't. You won't. But you do go on. It becomes a part of you, like any scar. You will go on.

When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change all

But these things that had happened, and these feelings he now experienced were not faults to be conquered. He could not deny the feelings, nor should he try to change them. "Accept and grow," he reminded himself, and felt the pain ease. Wintrow went to pack a change of clothes.

But a wall that will not yield to a battering ram can still be breached by the gentle twining of ivy.

A boy is a man when he proves himself to be one, but a girl is a woman when she desires to be one.

Sometimes, when one goes back to the scene of one's childhood, things seem smaller. What was mysterious and the sole province of adults suddenly seems commonplace and mundane when viewed with mature eyes.

I sometimes think that age is based more on what you've done and what you remember than how old you are.

It's that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden.

She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.

acho que Zar aprendeu a lição. Uma vez queimado, duas reservado. - Hmf. Uma vez deitado, sempre esfomeado seria um ditado melhor para este caso.

No hardship endured is a loss. Someone will learn from it. Someone profits from it.

You can't go back," she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. "That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' Ã¢â'¬Â She

The way she spoke, the way she thought, reflected the books they had shared. It was not that she had become wiser; wisdom had shone in her from the start. Now she had the words for her thoughts. She had been like a lantern flame burning behind a sooty glass. Now the glass was clear and her light shone forth.

I have found the old adages to be true. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back. I walk once more in trueness to myself." p. 177: Kettricken to Fitz: