Quotes About Growth

One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.

The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.

JACK You're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. GWENDOLEN Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.

I give the truths of tomorrow. I prefer the mistakes of today, she answered.

Are there not books that make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?

The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

You have not realized how I have developed. I was a schoolboy when you knew me. I am a man now. I have new passions new thoughts new ideas. I am different but you must not like me less. I am changed but you must always be my friend.

What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

Cada impulso que intentamos aniquilar germina en la mente y nos envenena

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Discúlpeme, no le había reconocido: he cambiado mucho.

I am not sorry for anything that has happened. It has taught me to know myself better.

There is much more before me. I have hills far steeper to climb, valleys much darker to pass through. And I have to get it all out of myself. Neither religion, morality, nor reason can help me at all.

Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.

I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

What you read when you don't have to will determine what you will be when you can't help it.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Puede recordar usted algún gran error que haya cometido en su juventud, duquesa? -preguntó mirándola- Me temo que de una gran cantidad de ellos -exclamó ella. Entonces cométalos otra vez -dijo él gravemente-. Volver a la juventud es solamente repetir sus locuras.