Quotes About Growth

What adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.

What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?

Life is like that I thought, as I turned the corner to my building. Freedom has its danger as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off will be.

Being a student meant always looking up to someone wiser and always measuring yourself against that wisdom and knowledge.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

The nature of this flower is to bloom.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins

Well, I say, we all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, and our own self is what us have to hand.

And to me, wildness means following the growth of love. Like a plant reaching through stone toward the sun-

I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

Healing begins where the wound was made.

But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand.

Si viene, yo feliz. Si no, contenta. Y entonces caigo en que puede que ésta sea la lección que yo tenía que aprender.

La experiencia. Más tarde o más temprano, todos acabamos por tenerla. Para eso, lo único que hay que hacer es ir viviendo.

How do we make new and restorative of soul the old pain? How do we learn to carry with grace and humor all that has happened to us?

We were not meant to suffer so much and learn nothing.

It seems wiser to do as hermit crabs do, find a shell and inhabit it.

no person is a friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow