Quotes About Growth

We must live and learn.

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

Human nature needs more lessons than a weekly sermon can convey.

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

But now you love a hyacinth. So much the better. You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

All this she must possess, added Darcy, and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…

Her mind was less difficult to develop.

no es justo publicar las faltas del pasado de una persona, ignorando si se ha corregido.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.

There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth's mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original, that she had ever felt in the height of their acquaintance. Elizabeth's changing relationship with Darcy on first visit to Pemberley, Chapter 43.

it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Nothing can be changed by changing the face,but everything can be changed by facing the change!!Just think about it.  

it is very worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Everything nourishes what is strong already.

We shall be on good terms again; though we can never be what we once were to each other.

So altered that he should not have known her again!' These were words which could not but dwell with her. Yet she soon began to rejoice that she had heard them. They were of sobering tendency; they allayed agitation; they composed, and consequently must make her happier.

His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.

Il y a, je crois, en chacun de nous, un défaut naturel que la meilleure éducation ne peut arriver à faire disparaître.

I am glad I have done being in love with him.