Quotes About Growth

But I keep thinking love should be like a tree. You look at trees and they've got bumps and scars from tumors, infestations, what have you, but they're still growing. Despite the bumps and bruises, they're--straight.

Life was long enough so that you can keep relearning things. Think and feel and realize again what you used to know.

Despite all my curatorial impulses and training, my priestly harborings and professional, courtly suit of the past, I never knew what to do with all those years of one's life: trot around in them forever like old boots--or sever them, let them fly free? Of course, one couldn't really do either. But there was always the trying, and pretending. And then there was finally someplace in between, where one lived.

Always in motion is the future," Yoda reminded himself. "Know this you do. Heed your own lessons you should.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

To the extent that your love [of God] is fearful, your love is incomplete or immature. It is not made perfect. 1 John 4:17-18

We all go Do, Re, Mi, but you've gotta find all the other notes yourself.

I look back on the poor benighted creature I was before I met her, and I see a dead man. Marching in all the right directions, answering when spoken to, fulfilling all his appointed rounds, but dead all the same. And now this woman has awakened me, and I am alive at last, and at what cost! What pain it is to be among the living!

Those who are nurtured best, survive best.

Therapists are never "done" with growth, they are simply people who should be dedicated to learning as much about themselves and others as they possibly can. The best therapists are fully human and engage in the struggles of life. Our own failures help us to remain open to the struggles of others; our personal victories give us the optimism and courage to inspire those struggling with their lives.

our ability to learn is regulated by how we are treated by our teachers, at home and in the classroom.

Thus, the brain remains plastic into adulthood and can be changed for the better through positive interpersonal relationships.

complexity. Assuming

Their trade was not life, but death. They have eaten the fruit of the tree they grew for others to eat.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. But sometimes the petals fall away and the roots have not entwined.

for the bird that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.

He noticed that a bedraggled and desiccated pink poppy was growing out of a crack where the wall of the teacher's house intersected with the cobbles of the street.

One should not, after

We had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. Louis de Bernieres as quoted in Underland by Robert Macfarlane.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Poucos seres têm ainda um pouco depois dos vinte anos essa afeição fácil, a dos animais. O mundo não é o que a gente julgava! Eis tudo! Então mudamos de cara! Porque nos tínhamos enganado! É o que nos ficou depois dos vinte anos! Um engano! A nossa cara não é senão um engano.