Quotes About Growth

I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn't it?

You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [...] I always say the wrong thing. I upset water jugs. I am unlucky." "We all do these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire , comes later.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.

Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.

That rebellion of mine was an important turning point in my life.

What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Don't be offended because I think you're young. Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness—youth, the time of greatest vulnerability!

We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire , it comes later.

They wish not to become adult—not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.

Aprendí, aunque supongo que ya lo sabía, que nunca se debe intentar volver atrás, que la esencia de la vida es seguir hacia delante.

It's second nature to make the best of yourself.

My boy, I know what I'm talking about. Mind you, I'm not saying marriage doesn't come hard on a fellow at first. It does. Fellow says to himself, damn it all, he says, I can't call my soul my own! But he gets broken in. It's all discipline." Luke

Aprendí que no se puede dar marcha atrás, que la esencia de la vida es ir hacia adelante. La vida, en realidad, es una calle de sentido único.

Men are like that... They remain boys...

Do you remember these words: 'What Lamp has Destiny to guide Her little Children stumbling in the Dark? "A Blind Understanding," Heaven replied. 'Geoffrey has that—a blind understanding. All children possess it. It is only as we grow older that we lose it, that we cast it away from us. Sometimes, when we are quite old, a faint gleam comes back to us, but the Lamp burns brightest in childhood.

Hi vaig aprendre (suposo que en realitat ho sabia ja) que mai no es pot tornar enrera, que ni tan sols s'ha d'intentar tornar-hi... que l'essència de la vida és anar cap endavant. En realitat, la vida és un camí amb una direcció única, no ho creieu?

Girls are foolish things.

Quién puede afirmar que aquel niño no podría haberse convertido en un gran músico o en el descubridor de la vacuna contra el cáncer? O algo menos melodramático: podría convertirse en una persona feliz y normal...

Paeonies," said Miss Marple as she rose from table, "are most unaccountable. Either they do—or they don't do. But if they do establish themselves, they are with you for life, so to speak, and really most beautiful varieties nowadays.

I think now, looking back, that I was perhaps a shade intolerant.

Geef het op. Richt u op de toekomst. Wat gebeurd is, is gebeurd en bitterheid kan daar niets aan veranderen.