Quotes About Growth

The challenge and chance to learn is its own reward. It is usually not difficult to figure out ways of offering challenge. Asking your potential allies to join the problem-solving group or passing them a tough piece of your project are ways to pay in the currency of challenge. (If the person is competent, you probably get back more than expected.)

Does the person see himself or herself as highly competent or still learning?

He said, "I had to dance with all the girls who didn't have a partner. I'd be the youngest one, and I was like a foot shorter, so I was staring straight at all these eighth-grade breasts." "Sh!" "What? It was like the highlight of my childhood.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed by our own seed & hairy naked accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown vision.

Trees hang their branches

Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower?

The kindly search for growth, the gracious desire to exist of the flowers, my near ecstasy at existing among them The privilege to witness my existence—you too must seek the sun

We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

Being a parent doesn't get any easier, ... it just gets hard in a different way.

Becoming a parent was like trying to build a boat while you were at sea.

Men grow old, but they do not ripen.

Children are like men, the experience of others does not help them.

Parler est une graine que l'on sème dans le champ des esprits; la graine devient un arbre, et dans l'arbre finissent par chanter tous les oiseaux du ciel.

Os analfabetos do futuro não serão os que não sabem ler ou escrever, mas os que não sabem aprender, desaprender e reaprender.

People who love reading are often called bookworms — but that's the wrong way around. It's not you that worms into a book; it's books that worm into you." — Amanda Craig

A hundred years ago, people had perfectly understood that you could die of a broken heart, now they thought you were making a fuss about nothing…Certain kinds of suffering are like radiation: they cause furious growth and mutation of the inner self.

You are very young and time, it is a great healer.

We must have faith in ourselves and our decisions, as well as trusting that we have the strength and ability to handle whatever consequences our decision may bring. Trust that whatever result your leap of faith may bring, you will gain much from it in terms of growth and learning.

While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

make your children unhappy so they can face the world, but then, what is a world without children's laughter?

A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.

Like a plant that has struck its root into some poisonous mineral, my poor uncle was dying slowly upward.