Quotes About Growth

Not all pain is worth it,' said Tipper. 'Some pain is just pain.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

And in the end, after he broke up with me and I was sad and mental, I came to the Vineyard and one day I thought: Eff you, Mr. Isaac. I'm not so very ignorant. I just know stuff about stuff that you dismiss as unimportant and useless. Does that make sense?

Think of your happy memories. Know they are still in you. They are part of you. And maybe even they ARE you.

It's better, I think, to move on. To look forward.

She would love herself, even with her sadness and her distractibility, her defenses and her failures. The process of making would stretch open the universe until it was frighteningly and gloriously wide with possibility.

Grow up, Cadence. See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.

Mummy sighs. "We grew up, Dad," she says. "We grew up.

Always do what you're afraid to do

A part of me died. And it was the best part.

Do Not Accept A Evil You Can Change

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad business man and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it.

The world is not a prison house; it is a spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell G-O-D wih the wrong blocks.

trembling copse of young saplings

Big streams from little fountains flow. Great oaks from little acorns grow;

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Knowledge is a funny thing, Auron. The more of it that's in your head, the more your head can hold. It breeds on its own. You never know what the next bit of reading is going to do, what it's going to meet up with in your head and mate.

It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.