Quotes About Growth

it is not worth while to remember that past which cannot become a present.

Tap for all del ikke lysten til å gå: jeg går meg til det daglige velbefinnende hver dag og går fra enhver sykdom; jeg har gått meg til mine beste tanker og jeg kjenner ingen tanke så tung at man ikke kan gå fra den.

the genuinely humane no generation learns from the foregoing

What is education? I should suppose that education was the curriculum one had to run through in order to catch up with oneself

Once we overcome our biases about the past, we will realize that the people we see as primitive have a lot to teach us, that looking back can help us to move forward.

You think your relationship with your daughter is something that is, a noun, a thing that can be broken, or fixed. Neither of those things are true. Time moves. Ruri is dead, she died long, long ago, and you are alive. What you have with your daughter isn't a thing, it's a process, a verb, it's something you create with each and every moment.

Realization comes when we honestly accept the mistakes of the past and that automatically builds the responsibility that will prevent us from repeating those same mistakes.

We had to become other than we were, or cease to be at all

Children do make life more interesting, he thought.

No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.

Is love like a mineral, to be chipped away with every new problem or deficiency?

Is it true we'd rather be ruined than changed?

Make mistakes -- just don't keep making the same goddamn ones.

If you get to live your life over, make the same mistakes -- only sooner.

Festering with regret changes not one thing.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?

What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language...

Knowledge was never simply born in the human mind; it was always reborn. The relaying of wisdom from one age to the next, this cycle of rebirths: this was wisdom.

Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven years, I have learned to love you as my son.

I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three.

our lives teach us who we are

The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?

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