Quotes About Growth

Those are experiences that have shaped you. Hard experiences. Painful even. But you are who you are because of them." Other

It's also like being born," said Ender. "As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes.

Children never do understand their own childishness. Then

When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.

Children never do understand their own childishness.

And that, said Bean, is why losing is a much more powerful teacher than winning.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy. I have learned from the buggers. You will learn from me.

Perhaps those who grew up among these people might somehow sublimate their ambition, or perhaps there was something in the racial genotype that suppressed it or replaced it

A human child loses almost all the memories of the first years of its life, and its long-term memories only take root in its second or third year of life; everything before that is lost, so that the child cannot remember the beginning of life.

The trick of it was finding a way to let new things into one's life without killing that life to accommodate them.

Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

When God anoints a person, a pattern of testing appears to take place at specific times in the leader's life. God often takes each leader through four major tests to determine if that person will achieve God's ultimate call on his or her life. The person's response to these tests is the deciding factor in whether they can advance to the next level of responsibility in God's Kingdom.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

Wisdom comes with winters