Quotes About Growth

Almost anything is possible with time

but time makes many changes.

In essentials I believe Mr. Darcy is very much what he ever was. When I said that he improved on acquaintance, I did not mean that either his mind or manners were in a state of improvement. But that from knowing him better his disposition was better understood.

Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.

What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it…

Pese a esta experiencia creía que iba a tener que pasar por una nueva y necesaria lección en el arte de aprender lo poca cosa que somos fuera de nuestro propio círculo.

Curajul imi creste in timp ce scriu.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

les gens changent tellement qu'il ya toujours du nouveau à observer.

and even you yourself, who do not altogether seem particularly friendly to very severe, very intense application, may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that 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.

It is always good for young people to be put upon exerting themselves; and you know, my dear Catherine, you always were a sad little shatter-brained creature; but now you have been forced to have your wits about you...

Read Above Your Head--"You may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that it is very well 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.

Perfection should not have come quite so soon.

Well, we must live and learn.

Her love of dirt gave way to an inclination for finery, and she grew clean as she grew smart;

if you are ever so forward and clever yourselves, you should always be modest; for, much as you know already, there is a great deal more for you to learn.

Painful recollections will intrude which cannot, which ought not, to be repelled.

What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you I was properly humbled.

And you have taught me a hard, but most advantageous lesson. I now see that I have been proud. I owe you so much for showing me that.

The first experimental convinction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

He sido mejor con él que conmigo mismo.

Ä°nsanlar, kendileri o kadar deÄŸiÅŸiyorlar ki içlerinde hep gözlemlenecek yeni bir ÅŸey oluyor.

had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.