Quotes About Growth

Crecemos como bonsáis, torturados y podados y empequeñecidos por las circunstancias, las convenciones, los prejuicios culturales, los imperativos sociales, los traumas infantiles y las expectativas familiares. #HonrarALosPadres.

La buena noticia es que, si sobrevives, el sufrimiento enseña. La mala noticia es que el verdadero sufrimiento casi siempre mata.

Los novelistas no escriben sobre sus asuntos, sino en torno a ellos», dice Julian Barnes. Y Stephen Vizinczey redondea ese pensamiento con una frase precisa y luminosa: «El autor joven siempre habla de sí mismo incluso cuando habla de los demás, mientras que el autor maduro siempre habla de los demás, incluso cuando habla de sí mismo».

Madurez: atisbo de entendimiento del mundo y de uno mismo, intuición del equilibrio de las cosas. Acercamiento entre la razón y el corazón. Conocimiento de los propios deseos y los propios miedos.

Porque suele suceder que lo que nos daña también puede curarnos.

La vida es una constante reescritura del ayer. Una deconstrucción de la niñez.

El envejecimiento es un proceso orgánico bastante lamentable que apenas si tiene un par de cosas buenas (una, que, si te esfuerzas, aprendes algunas cosas; y dos, que es la mejor prueba de que no te has muerto todavía)

Life, for both of us, can never be the same as it was, but it can be different; and you have proved to me that it can be good.

I always thinks that a garden is the best sort of legacy a person can leave. [Caroline, 'Skelmerton']

And in this life, nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character.

If she had learned nothing else, she had learned that every age brings its own rewards. Rosamunde Pilcher, Flowers In the Rain & Other Stories

If she had learned nothing else, she had learned that every age brings its own rewards.

A year. They had known each other a year. They [Janey and David] had this closeness, this rapport. But the final certainty was missing, and it was this void that, because she loved him so much, she was learning to live with. ['Anniversary']

and he had been part of her life long before he became the whole of it.

I'm fourteen now, and sometimes I feel I've done nothing except go to school.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Kabullenmenin hayat?n öÄŸrettiÄŸi en a??r ve en zor ders olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüyordu.

All life, he thought as he tugged at the boulder, is a flight from mistake to mistake.

and Pao Yi was reminded that the inclination of almost every living thing is to cling on, to remain where it is, but that his own inclination -his own nature- suspended him always in a kind of no-man's-land between remaining and leaving.

With journaling, you see the patterns of your life; you claim—or reclaim—who you really are; you coach yourself into becoming the someone you imagined; you arrive at a sense of balance, of yourself, of wholeness. You can discover productive patterns and nonproductive patterns in your life, and you can choose to embrace the ones that move you forward.

He had pink butterfly ears. The rest of him was still in the larval stage.

Challenging behavior occurs when the demands being placed upon a child outstrip the skills he has to respond adaptively to those demands.

Plants are shaped by cultivation , and men by education .

I have, by God's grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God's mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.