Quotes About Growth

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

Toute relation soumise à une pression, même si son but est d'essayer de raccommoder les choses, finit toujours par se disloquer. Nous pouvons apprendre à faire mieux qu'à nous laisser diriger par cet esprit du moi malavisé. Nous pouvons apprendre à nous distancer de ses manigances autodestructrices.

Daha önce önemli olan pek çok ÅŸeyin art?k o kadar önemli olmad???n?, eskiden çok istediÄŸimiz ÅŸeylerin art?k bizim için neredeyse hiçbir önem ta??mad???n? gösterecek anlarla her zaman kar??laÅŸaca??m?z gerçeÄŸini -Åžimdi- hat?rlayabilsek, o zaman...

When you fall, you must remember to let go of the rope!" They both laughed out loud at this lighthearted lesson because the need to let go was so obvious. I remember this incident well because of the long-lasting impression it formed in me.

Bir yerden ayr?lmaktan korkma, oraya ba?l? kalmaktan kork, al??kanl?klar?ndan kork. Hep ayn? kalmaktan kork.

There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?

We are always the person we were, and we grow into someone very different, if we live long enough. Both things are true.

And in that moment Dianora had a truth brought home to her with finality: how something can seem quite unchanged in all the small surface details of existence where things never really change, men and women being what they are, but how the core, the pulse, the kernel of everything can still have become utterly unlike what it had been before.

His intelligence stretched her to the limits, and then changed what those limits were.

But when did the young people become clever? Isn't that supposed to take time?" Guidanio doesn't smile. "Wisdom does," he says. "People can be clever at any age.

I think that when we're young we often have the sense that what we do when faced with a choice will define our lives forever. This can be untrue, sometimes amusingly so, but not always.

He had a sense, through that spring, that his life would be so much better for her presence. He wasn't wrong, but it was equally a truth that the purpose and direction of her life was not to make his better, and in time he even came to understand that.

Gardens were an island of order imposed upon the chaos of the world.

You had to grow into your own significance—or come to terms with the lack of it.

Forgetting is part of our lives, my lord. Sometimes it is a blessing, or we could never move beyond loss.

What I was born to may not be taken from me.' She hesitates. 'It may only be added to.

They'd been painful against her spine…she's more accustomed to them now. A person, a woman, can adapt to more than she might of thought she could; what she's unsure about is when that stops being a virtue and turns to something else.. leaving you too much changed, undefined, unanchored… like a fisherman's empty boat drifting on a river, with no way to be returned to where it belongs.

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

Watching, letting the growth of wisdom guide him into silence

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

There are two kinds of people: eaters and bakers. Eaters think the world is a zero-sum game: what someone else eats, they cannot eat. Bakers do not believe that the world is a zero-sum game because they can bake more and bigger pies.

Without the freedom to make 'mistakes', people cannot learn to take control of their lives successfully.

Years don't begin and end because everybody gets together at the same time and says they do. Years really start when important things happen to you. When you're born. When you find the human you're going to live with forever. Your life begins when it becomes important.

Growing up means learning to be responsible for others—and embracing the great joys those responsibilities can bring. Homer taught me that building my life around someone other than myself, making myself responsible for someone else's life, is one of the most rewarding differences between being a kid and being an adult.