Quotes About Growth

You've been making the wrong mistakes.

Once, at Fredensborg, when Prince Christopher cried out that he wished he were grown up, his mother, the sensible Queen Olga, rebuked him. 'Remember these years,' she said quietly, 'you will always think back on them as the happiest of your life.

Wer gerade gewachsen ist, ist für Leichtsinn. Überhaupt ohne Leichtsinn ist das ganze Leben keinen Schuss Pulver wert.«

Sometimes I think the point of old age is to be embarrassed about one's youth.

One should never begrudge deletions.

Although, I thought I knew almost everything about camping out in odd places, I still have much to learn about the art of relaxing.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

If you're a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

Chasing perfection is like chasing the fountain of youth—it's a fool's mission. Immediately divorce your self-esteem from perfectionism.

the knowledge, tastes, and social accomplishments of 13-year-olds are often the same as those of 28-year-olds. Adolescents are precociously adult; adults are permanently adolescent.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

When I was a lark, I sang;When I was a worm, I devoured.

And the new plants, still awkward in their soil,The lovely diminutives.I could watch! I could watch!I saw the separateness of all things!

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience.