Quotes About Growth

Fear dims when you learn things

Alys told her that it was the way of women, to tote a newborn and then adjust as it grew until by the time the child was plump and heavy, the weight seemed naught.

My work will be finished when I have helped the community to change and become whole.

Fear dims when you learn things -Alys

Change means leaving things behind, and that's always sad -Gossamer

The front-buttoned jacket was the first sign of independence, the first very visible symbol of growing up.

He's changing, isn't he?" Matty replied, startling himself, because he had not spelled it out in his mind before, had not said it aloud yet, yet here it was, and he was saying it to Jean. He felt an odd sense of relief. Jean began to cry softly. "Yes," she said. "He has traded his deepest self.

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond—all that is Elsewhere—and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

She had seen the cindered fragments of her childhood life whirl into the sky as well.

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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. The front-buttoned jacket was the first sign of independence, the first very visible symbol of growing up.

Because change begets change.

I'm trying to ruin it! Will had bellowed back. So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

Everything that you're a part of. Your own story fills you.

The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

the gods did not desire flawless souls, but great ones. I think that very darkness is where the greatness grows from, as flowers from the soil. I am not sure, in fact, if greatness can bloom without it.

Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too

So what's the test? Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, boy, choose learning. It works more of the time.

When your young life offered its first disaster, naturally it loomed large. After you'd survived dozens, you basically just told the next one to take a number and get in line.

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

to slide halfway to stupid and stop was rare indeed.