Quotes About Growth

Although I work for Corrine and Samuel and look after the children, I don't feel like a maid. I guess this is because they teach me, and I teach the children and there's no beginning or end to teaching and learning and working—it all runs together.

A renglón seguido, empezó a mejorar. Y es que la maldad te mata, dice Sofia.

People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

because part of shaping ourselves is done by others; and a lot of our shaping comes from that one close friend who is something like us. It

Você sabe, todo mundo é capaz de aprender um pouco, cedo ou tarde. Tudo o que é preciso fazer é viver.

early wildflowers. Then us

hadn't realized I was so ignorant, Celie. The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble! And to think Miss Beasley always said I was the smartest child she ever taught! But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.

Gather your intentions and share your wisdom everywhere. The future is behind you, in the seeds you planted.

When something can't be fixed then the question is what can we build instead?

Parents and children help each other to grow. In raising their children, parents are also raising themselves. Child rearing gives parents the chance to redo their own childhood and to improve on it.

Children ask questions piecemeal because they take their time to make sense of the information they receive. They know what they can manage and stop asking when they had enough. It is a good

There was a certain thing I did not get from my mother. There is a lack, a gap, a void. How's that? But in it's place, she has given me something else. Something, I would argue, that is far more valuable. I think I can get up now. She has given me the way out.

Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties.

Rich is not writing about transcending this world... But about transforming it. Here, and now. And what hope do we have of changing the world if we can't change our sorry-ass selves? As wisdom tends to do, the poem reveals something very simple that's been here all along: We are not the center of everything. But we are a part of everything.

My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been.

You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.

Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.

You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.

Loving children doesn't give them a destination. It gives them sustenance for the journey.

All these differences between children and adults

The dominant view was that children were essentially defective adults. They were defined by the things they didn't know and couldn't do.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.' Soren Kierkegaard

Life goes on, you know, and there are compensations to be found. We cannot keep harking back to the past.

Henry is a youngling