Quotes About Growth

Ah, Princess, Dallben said, with a furrowed smile, a crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

Stale water is a poor drink," said Annlaw. "Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

if you grow up with any kind of sense - which you sometimes make me doubt - you will very likely reach your own conclusions. They will probably be wrong. However, since they will be yours, you will feel a little more satisfied with them.

See much, study much, suffer much.

If you made mistakes, you recognize them. As I told you, there are times when the seeking counts more than the finding.

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.

It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry.

Why do you and I have to hold these memories? It gives us wisdom, The Giver replied.

Thomas, she suggested, you and I? We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

It will help when you learn them. Fear dims when you learn things.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating what you're leaving.

That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.

Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence.

each change, painful though some of them will be, will make us a little better than we were before.

Don't grow much more, or you will be taller than I am, little Longlegs! Annemarie smiled, but Peter's comment was no longer the lighthearted fun of the past. It was only a brief grasp at something that had gone.

If you put pussy willows in water, they'll blossom and then die. Just put them in the vase alone, and they'll stay beautiful forever.

Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.