Quotes About Growth

I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.

she had the cruelty of youth.

We are ourselves only by the sum of our failures.

The mind advances only if it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.

O que torna os maus poetas ainda piores é o facto de apenas lerem poetas (tal como os maus filósofos apenas lêem filósofos), quando eles tirariam um proveito bem maior de um livro de botânica ou de geologia. Só nos enriquecemos se frequentarmos disciplinas afastadas da nossa. Isto só é verdade, claro está, nos domínios em que grassa o eu.

La noia è pensiero in germe

I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally in a way; but here--" He pointed with his pipe stem to his heart; and both smiled. "Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

Does it seem reasonable that she should play so wonderfully, and live so quietly? I suspect that one day she will be wonderful in both. The water-tight compartments in her will break down, and music and life will mingle.

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec's turn to bring out the hero in him

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

But let yourself go. You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself. It will be good for both of you.

Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness.

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

If high ideals make a young man rude, the sooner he gets rid of them the better

Of all means to regeneration, Remorse is surely the most wasteful.

But man is an odd, sad creature as yet, intent on pilfering the earth, and heedless of the growths within himself. He cannot be bored about psychology. He leaves it to the specialist, which is as if he should leave his dinner to be eaten by a steam-engine. He cannot be bothered to digest his own soul.

You have less restraint rather than more as you grow older. Think it over and alter yourself, or we shan't have happy lives.

They go forth into it with well deveoped bodies,fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts... An undeveloped heart, not a cold one. The difference is important...

Something had changed. He had journeyed—as on rare occasions a man must—till he stood behind right and wrong. On the banks of the grey torrent of life, love is the only flower.

And as her love revived, so did her capacity for suffering. Life, more important, grew more bitter.