Quotes About Growth

Dir wachsen einfach nur neue Blätter, Caspia, dachte sie, wie dem jungen Löwenzahn und der Kapuzinerkresse.

The slow days drifted on, and each left behind a slightly lightened weight of apprehension. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

I just planted this story, but it's growing the way it wants to, and everyone expects me to know in advance what kind of flowers it will have!

with a leaf canopy spreading so wide that a whole troop of horsemen could shelter beneath it. The forests of the other world were so young, their trees still children. They had always made him feel old, so old that the years covered him like cobwebs. Here he was young again, just a child among the trees, not much older than the mushrooms growing among their roots, not much taller than the thistles and nettles.

She spoke to the King, hoping he would forbid his son to go, but he said: "Well, dear, it's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get into a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them." Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13

We don't care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you're going to do tomorrow.

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

But if you're not prepared to learn from the teachers that life gives you, you'll always be ignorant.

you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.

They'd only been here for a couple of years, only employed twenty people all told, their two-year tax holiday was ending. Place

Our level of development is fairly obvious with tennis or piano playing, where it is impossible to pretend. But it is not so obvious in the areas of character and emotional development. We can pose and put on for a stranger or an associate. We can pretend. And for a while we can get by with it - at least in public. We might even deceive ourselves.

How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it goes forever unchallenged. Passing through life never pursuing aspects of our natures with which we'd rather not reckon. Dying strangers to ourselves.

You can't hate your best friend for taking opportunities he'd been given. That would be the worst sort of hate, wouldn't it? Because it would mean you hate yourself, too.

You always fall hardest the first time, don't you? There's no bottom to it.

He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually.

If you don't handle the hurt properly, their sin becomes a catalyst for your own.

Aristotle said that some minds are not vases to be filled, but fires to be lit.

If we go beyond what we once thought was our perimeter, then all limits are open to question.

One can never satisfy a closed mind

February turned into March and Hiccup was still thinking. A few flowers made the mistake of appearing and were immediately blasted out of existence by a couple of hard frosts that had kept themselves back for this very purpose.

This is the problem with adventures. They bring out parts of you that you never even knew were there.