Quotes About Growth

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow.

From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But, lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out.

A machine, now, to help boys change from peach fuzz to briar bramble, girls from toadstools to nectarine.

It smells boys ulcerating to be men, paining like great unwise wisdom teeth, twenty thousand miles away, summer abed in winter's night. It feels the aggravation of middle-aged men like myself, who gibber after long-lost August afternoons to no avail.

We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn't be here. -Guy Montag

HOW TO CLIMB THE TREE OF LIFE, THROW ROCKS AT YOURSELF, AND GET DOWN AGAIN WITHOUT BREAKING YOUR BONES OR YOUR SPIRIT A PREFACE WITH A TITLE NOT MUCH LONGER THAN THE BOOK

solo podemos crecer y progresar en este mundo si admitimos que no somos perfectos y podemos vivir con esta verdad

Quantity gives experience. From experience alone can quality come.

Tr? con nhÆ° th?m chùi chân, th?nh tho?ng ph?i b? d?m lên.

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

But we live surrounded by paradoxes. One more shouldn't hurt us. The fact is simple enough. Through a lifetime, by ingesting food and water, we build cells, we grow, we become larger and more substantial. That which was not, is. The process is undetectable.

Mistakes can be profited by.

Merhamet, Montag, merhamet. Onlarla tart??ma, canlar?n? s?kma; daha çok yak?n zamana dek sen de onlardand?n...

Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality.

I've heard the rumors about hate, too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!

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

Si esconde usted su ignorancia, nadie le atacará y nunca llegará a aprender.

I know, I know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger 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.

Si vous cachez votre ignorance, vous ne recevrez pas de coups et vous n'apprendrez rien.

Children are carpets, they should be stepped on occasionally.

The only things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for the shore.

La verità è che non abbiamo bisogno soltanto di tranquillità. Ogni tanto dobbiamo essere turbati, tanto per cambiare.

I am not one thing. I am many things that America has been in my time. I had enough sense to keep moving, learning, growing. And I have never reviled or turned my back on the things I grew out of.

If anything is taught here, it is simply the charting of the life of someone who started out to somewhere—and went. I have not so much thought my way through life as done things and found what it was and who I was after the doing. Each tale was a way of finding selves. Each self found each day slightly different from the one found twenty-four hours later.