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Quotes About Growth

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.
~ Gwen Stefani
I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.
~ Gwen Stefani
When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.
~ Gwen Stefani
Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.
~ Gwen Stefani
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love. My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls, Are gone from the house. My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite And night is night.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Rudolph Reed was oaken. His wife was oaken too. And his two good girls and his good little man Oakened as they grew.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can. I give you what I have. You don't get all your questions answered in this world. How many answers shall be found in the developing world of my Poem? I don't know. Nevertheless I put my Poem, which is my life, into your hands, where it will do the best it can.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
My Poem is life, and not finished. It shall never be finished. My Poem is life, and can grow.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
This is the urgency: Live! And have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Remember, green's your color. You are Spring.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you.
~ Gwyneth Lewis
life doesn't stand still, and sometimes it doesn't pay to look back, long ago isn't worth a wink!
~ Gwynne Forster
Let crazy life rush headlong on the highway for others; we shall contemplate the sunflowers, watch them sprout, blossom, fade away. Yesterday they were still giants, but now, in autumn, they are thatch on the roof.
~ Gyula Krúdy
tirar para arriba, which literally means "to toss upward," but which is most often translated as "to overcome adversity.
~ Hector Tobar
Estas son la ma
~ Hector Tobar
overcoming obstacles [tirando para arriba
~ Hector Tobar
When I write, all those that we don't know we can be write themselves from me, without exclusion, without prediction, and everything that we will be calls us to the tireless, intoxicating, tender-costly-search for love. We will never lack ourselves.
~ Helene Cixous
We then spend our lives not seeing what we saw . The picture is there: what we know when we're small; when we are small, we know everything in a childlike way.
~ Helene Cixous
So little by little I climb towards life, in the straitjacket of my prison. I don't waste an ounce of air or sun. I explore I bring to light.
~ Helene Cixous
In front of us there is an immense garden of words and non-words, a serre, that is, a greenhouse in which are preserved by my care so many things of speech you have given me while leaving me free to cultivate them.
~ Helene Cixous
The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.
~ H. A. Overstreet
Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.
~ H. Beam Piper