Quotes About Growth

You've only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little.

Of course you will make errors; we all do. But you must learn from your mistakes. Learn quickly, and when you get something wrong, admit it and apologize.

Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup's point of view. This must have been this way, and that was that way, they say. That's why you have to be careful with children—some day they grow up.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

We grow up and figure out the truth, we realize how hard it is to maintain and take care of life, even the ones that deceive you, especially the ones you cherish

If there is not radical, concrete growth in humble love towards everyone (even your enemies), you don't really know you are a sinner saved by grace. And if there is not radical, concrete growth in confidence and joy (even in difficulties), you don't really know you are a sinner saved by grace. - Timothy Keller

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

Jay-Z told me once that one of his buddies from the Marcy Projects, in Brooklyn, said to him, Man, you've changed. And he replied, You're goddamn right. You act like I've been busting my ass to stay the same.

Just as trees bear their fruit before winter, just as bamboo grass produces its seeds just before it withers, sex is simply a struggle with death on the human level.

Cuando los campesinos compran más tierra con el fruto de su trabajo, eso significa que tienen que trabajar más que antes. A fin de cuentas, las preocupaciones y el trabajo no tienen fin, y lo único que obtienen es la posibilidad de tener más quehacer que antes…

Se spune c? rima nu-?i atinge cre?terea complet?, decat dac? este stimulat?.

the idea was not at all extraordinary; like some windblown seed, it needed only a speck of ground and a drop of water to grow.

Whatever the result, it would surely be much better than this extraordinary three-sided relationship—this self-intoxication with jealousy that continued to grow like a cancer.

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I guess you're right. I can look at photo albums and get a reasonable idea of what I was like when I was three years old, or when I was a newborn.

Slowly slowly O mind... Everything in own pace happens, Gardner may water a hundred buckets... Fruit arrives only in its season.

The people I knew, even the people I loved, did not always get things right, and they accumulated acts and omissions that lessened their sense of sureness.

That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own?

Things change, Briony. You can't stop them, and you'll drive yourself crazy if you try.

How quickly children grow! They are infants -- you look away a minute and in that time they have left their babyhood behind.