Quotes About Growth

abrazaban el futuro, como dispuestos a aceptar los cambios de la vida. Ellos optaron por sacar el máximo provecho de sus destinos afortunados, y nunca perdieron la sensación de gratitud respecto a todo aquello que tenían y conseguían.

Un hombre puede aprender muchas cosas de la naturaleza.

Why is marriage so hard?" "Who knows? I think it's probably because people get married without knowing who they really are in the first place. Or how they're crazy.

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

Il passato non c'era più e adesso a loro restava solo il futuro.

If we're meant to be, we can't just love each other as teenagers. We have to love each other as adults.

It's important to remember that none of us is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. All we can do is try to be the best version of ourselves as we move forward.

Los niños se ponen insoportables cuando empiezan a comprender el mundo de los adultos, sin tener la madurez de los adultos para enfrentarse a todo lo que pasa a su alrededor.

I'm not proud of who I was back then, but I also know it's impossible to change the past.

There is no teaching, there is only learning' over and over.

Tenía que admitir que todavía había muchos detalles que desconocía de él, pero de una cosa estaba segura: él la complementaba de una forma que nunca jamás habría pensado que fuera posible.

we always bring ourselves with us wherever we go.

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand.

The damage that you have inflicted heals over, and the scarred places left behind have unusual surface areas, roughnesses enough to become the nodes around which wisdom weaves its fibrils.

Will the time ever come when I am not so completely dependent on thoughts I first had in childhood to furnish the feedstock for my comparisons and analogies and sense of the parallel rhythms of microhistory? Will I reach a point where there will be a good chance, I mean a more than fifty-fifty chance, that any random idea popping back into the foreground of my consciousness will be an idea that first came to me when I was an adult, rather than one I had repeatedly as a child?

we fill the nothing with suns, line them up, swallow sap, swallow field, drop by drop, each stem a pump. Rose to rose to rose to rose to rose to rose to rose, calyx & anther, all summer gone.

Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.

It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.

You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example, or when one has been given the chance to start afresh somewhere- and one can ignore them or seize them.

I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.