Quotes About Growth

Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

While the days of parenting may seem so long, the years are so short.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.