Quotes About Growth

Young people anymore they seem to have a hard time growin up. I dont know why. Maybe it's just that you dont grow up any faster than what you have to.

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy.

I thought if I lived my life in the strictest way I knew how then I would not ever again have a thing that would eat on me thataway. I said that I was twenty-one years old and I was entitled to one mistake, particularly if I could learn from it and become the sort of man I had it in my mind to be.

I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.

nessuna creatura può imparare ciò che il suo cuore non è predisposto ad imparare

he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. By

he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life hidden from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

You dont want to be the youngest. I can tell you right now. There aint no percentage in it. They

I was unhappy as a child for reasons that are no longer important.

I began to see how the world must become if I were to live in it.

If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted.

You ever think what it would be like to meet a person you've known for a long time for the first time in these later years? To meet them anew. You're thinking they would be a much different person to you if you didn't know their history.

I've studied much and learned little.

Raramente o mal se mostra de imediato. A princípio, é pouco mais que um sussurro. Um olhar. Uma traição. Mas logo cresce e cria raízes, mesmo que imperceptível, despercebido.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

Ist es nicht seltsam, wie viel dicker ein Buch wird, wenn man es mehrmals liest? [...] Als würde jedes Mal etwas zwischen den Seiten kleben bleiben. Gefühle, Gedanken, Geräusche, Gerüche ... Und wenn du dann nach vielen Jahren wieder in dem Buch blätterst, entdeckst du dich selbst darin, etwas jünger, etwas anders, als hätte das Buch dich aufbewahrt, wie eine gepresste Blüte, fremd und vertraut zugleich.

If she'd known him better, she might've tried to explain to Will that life never lets you hide. Plant, animal, or human—life forced them all to grow and learn. The more you tried to run, the harder your path got, and you'd still have to travel it.

And that everyone has to find their own path, even brothers.

Courage was not given; it was acquired, earned. You had to take the difficult paths.

It seems only yesterday I used to believe There was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed. Billy Collins, "On Turning Ten" A

Una storia cambia continuamente vestito. Una storia cresce e germoglia come un qualcosa di vivo! Quelle che vengono chiuse nei libri, invece? Sì, magari vivono più a lungo, ma prendono vita solo quando i libri vengono aperti. Sono suoni pressati tra i fogli, e solo una voce può dar loro fiato!