Quotes About Growth

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

Self improvement is masturbation...

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we've grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Getting fired,' Tyler says, 'is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

Some stories, she'd say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

Love is a skill you learn.

We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It's by having sex that adolescents first rebel. And if you never have sex, you never grow beyond everything else your parents taught you. If you never break the rule against sex, you won't break any other rule.

Human beings don't cultivate ideas. On the contrary…Ideas cultivate us.

Our way of get­ting nos­tal­gic for what we just threw in the trash, it's all be­cause we're afraid to evolve. Grow, change, lose weight, rein­vent our­selves. Adapt.