Quotes About Growth

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger'. Unless it's polio.

I've heard goldfish grow to the size of their surroundings; so does furniture.

I've heard that we're constantly shedding skin and it is totally replaced every seven years. So every seven years you're a different person. That's why people get the seven-year itch and stop getting on with their partner – it's because they're a different person.

God uses the obstacles in our lives to prepare us for leadership, building courage, character, and confidence.

When you're going in the right direction, life always looks larger than what you're accustomed to.

a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.' Sophocles.

but one cannot look backward, only forward. What has passed has passed forever.

Sweet sixteen, Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you. Ursula still harbored the feeling that some of her future was also behind her but she had learned not to voice such things.

In the endgame a pawn can change into a queen.

Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.

Perhaps sex was something you had to learn and then stick at until you were good at it, like hockey or the piano. But an initial lesson would be helpful.

How wonderfully, joyously, untrammeled he had been then in his happiness. She thought it was fixed for ever, she didn't realize that childhood happiness dissolves away. If she had realized that Archie wasn't going to be that sunny innocent child for ever she would have laid up every moment as treasure.

Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let's face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman.

Boys took a long time to become men but daughters were women from the kickoff.

Sometimes you wondered why anyone bothered crawling out of the cradle when what lay ahead was so darn difficult.

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

Men are but children of a larger growth.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.