Quotes About Growth

I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me.

Knowledge comes through suffering.

he lei rispettasse e venerasse come rispettava e venerava lui. Era prontissima a fidarsi di quel che diceva lui, rispose. […] andavano da lei, spontaneamente, perché lei era una donna, tutto il giorno, con questa o quella richiesta; uno voleva una cosa, un altro un'altra; i ragazzi crescevano; a volte le sembrava di non essere altro che una spugna imbevuta di emozioni umane.

The compensation of growing old, Peter Walsh thought, coming out of Regent's Park, and holding his hat in hand, was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained-at last! — the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence, — the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

Soy el tallo. Mis raíces descienden hasta las profundidades del mundo, a través de tierras secas, de roca, a través de húmedas tierras, de vetas de plomo y de plata. Soy todo fibra. Todos los temblores me estremecen, y el peso de la tierra oprime mis costillares. Aquì, mis ojos son hojas verdes que no ven.

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

What ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness.

GeçmiÅŸ güzeldir çünkü insan asla bir duyguyu yaÅŸad??? anda anlamaz. Duygu sonradan aç?l?p, geniÅŸler. Bu yüzden de ÅŸimdiyle ilgili tamama ermiÅŸ duygular?m?z yoktur, sadece geçmiÅŸle ilgili vard?r.

For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents, and at the same time a grown woman coming to her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, 'This is what I have made of it! This!' And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

And so she went down and said to her husband, Why must they grow up and lose it all? Never will they be so happy again.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path

You're growing old together," she said to me. "You and what frightens you.

And I—the girl growing in their midst, being made in their image—I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my face. It has taken me thirty years to understand how much of them I understood.

Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us.

If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There is no turning back. We can only move forward.

Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.

The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me.

They say that suffering is a good school. Yes, true. But happiness is the best university.

I appeal to parents: never, never say, Hurry up, to a child. (62)

Easy, you know, does it, son.

Mindkettejüket szórakoztatták az élet ifjonti ügyetlenkedései, mindkettejüket elszomorította a múló idÅ'vel megérkezÅ' bölcsesség.

All the trees in the world are journeying somewhere. Perpetual pilgrimage.