Quotes About Growth

U—The Universe Is Expanding

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." —WINSTON CHURCHILL

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

Should she stick with the nice, sensitive guy who treats her well (Ben Stiller), or should she roll the dice with the frustrating boho bozo who treats her like crap (Ethan Hawk)? Winona made the kind of romantic decision most people my age would have made in 1994: She pursued a path that was difficult and depressing, and she did so because it showed the slightest potential for transcendence.

We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper part cannot. And it's that smaller part that matters more, because that part of our mind is who we really are (whether we like it or not).

We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.

everything I understood seven hours ago has already changed, and that I have to learn everything again.

It was, in retrospect, a remarkably easy time to be alive. There were still nuclear weapons, but there was not going to be a nuclear war. The internet was coming, but reluctantly, and there was no reason to believe it would be anything but awesome. The United States experienced a prolonged period of economic growth without the protracted complications of a hot or cold war, making it possible to focus on one's own subsistence as if the rest of society were barely there.

And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.

We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper part cannot. And it's that smaller part that matters more, because that part of our mind is who we really are (whether we like it or not).

flaws that didn't seem unacceptable until they were already eradicated.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.