Quotes About Growth

But time did not stand still, and now we scarcely love each other." I am thinking,' you said, 'that this moment will never come again. I am thinking that you are going to change, to die, and go away. I am thinking so truly, so hotly, how precious these moments are, how precious you are, you who will never again be just what you are now, This is the wound--time, which passes and changes us. To grow old, to think differently, to die.

I saw that they wanted to kill the past. When we are old, we let it die; when we are young and strong, we kill it.

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating one's self endlessly.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Vos 10 000 premières photographies seront les pires.

Tus primeras 10.000 fotos serán tus peores fotos.

Words and phrases grew only slowly

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait [If youth but knew, if old age but could].

If youth but know, And old age only could.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.

vu comment il nous traitait, c'était sans doute qu'il avait vécu deux ou trois trucs par le passé qui changent le cœur des hommes.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

This is why journeys are useful, they enlarge the space that is around us.

Only learn with reservations. An entire life is not enough to unlearn what you naively, submissively, have allowed to be placed in your head---innocent one---without imagiging the consequences.

At the age of eight, I still dreamed of being granted plant status.

What you are is God's gift to you. What you can become is your gift to Him.

Some people grow under responsibility; others swell.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.