Quotes About Growth

În mijlocul schimb?rii È™i al transform?rii, ne d?m seama c? pe m?sur? ce înaint?m în vârst?, avem mai mult? nevoie de cineva mai mare decât noi care s? ne redea ceea ce am pierdut.

academic or material advancement does not necessarily confer wisdom. As someone rightly quipped, "It may be a smartphone, but it is not a wise phone.

Tragedia maturiz?rii nu const? în faptul c? ne pierdem copil?ria în simplitatea ei, ci în aceea c? ne pierdem inocenÈ›a în sublimul ei.

What suffering teaches us is that three blessings flow from its tutelage: (1) the blessing of an amplified testimony, (2) the blessing of a fulfilled identity, and (3) the blessing of unshakable faith and strength that never drains away.

All walls are not barriers. They may be there for a purpose.

For the first time, I felt my mind being stretched — and I loved it. I realized that thinking could be fun, and with that simple realization I was sent headlong into the lifelong discipline of reading. I

A defini mirarea pentru un adult înainte de a o vedea prin ochii unul copil înseamn? a rata farmecul copil?riei. Cred c? vom descoperi c? deÈ™i copil?ria nu este o soluÈ›ie, ea este cheia pentru ajungerea la destinaÈ›ie.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

We're all fools, said Clemens, all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

Libraries raised me.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven't friends. Go find some.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.