Quotes About Growth

Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

Quit try­ing to fix your life. Deal with your one big is­sue.

The mistakes we make in our youth, she said solemnly, we pay for with the rest of our lives.

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

You just don't know what I've been through this past year.

An ancient truism had once decreed, Self improvement is masturbation..

Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.

For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions.

There will be mistakes, and maybe the point is not to forget the rest of yourself if one little part might go bad.

Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

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

When you're twenty-four," Marla says, "you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.

By the time you turn thirty, your life is about escaping the person you've become in order to escape the person you've become in order to escape the person you started as.

please accept the fact that people do not change over time.The elderly are, in reality, age tikes.Conversely, the young are juvenile codgers.Granted, we might develop some skills, achieve some profound insights over a lifetime, but by and large who you are at eighty-five is who you were at five.One is either born intelligent or not.The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die the same person.

I figured I'd spend my first thousand years of Hell in some entry-level position, but after that I wanted to move into management. Be a real team player. Hell is going to see enormous growth in market share over the next millennium. I wanted to ride the crest. The agent said that sounded pretty realistic.

Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young.

Miss Rona says nothing is gross. Miss Rona says the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Suffering is key to inspiration.

The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.

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Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever and funny behavior, but let them get that first erection and they go complete moron for the next sixty years. For both genders, adolescence occurs as a kind of Ice Age of Dumbness.

In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was a kind of tumbler. The same as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. All of us, we're meant to be worn smooth by conflict and pain of every kind. To be polished. There was nothing bad about this. This wasn't suffering, it was erosion.It was just another, a basic, an important step in the refining process.