Quotes About Growth

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

On nous veut avec les stigmates des grandes écoles, je le veux avec les stigmates de la vie.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

My heart has been purified in the crucible of adversity.

That is truly the loss of innocence, Ayla, when we understand what we must do in order to live. That

Más vale ser un hombre viejo que un muchacho que se cree hombre.

youngster and approved of the

Broud is a man now, he will learn to control his temper.

I am not the same man I was when you found me. You have changed me, woman, and I love you for it." "I, too, am changed, Jondalar. I love you.

En ocasiones las mujeres que no son perfectas resultan más interesantes; han hecho más o han aprendido algo.

Knowledge is not predetermined by heredity; it is not predetermined in the things around us - in knowing things around him the subject always adds to them.

Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow

I was thinking, 'I'm nineteen and I've got to go on living and living and living.

When my first love affair came to an end I wrote this poem: I didn't know I didn't know I didn't know.

Je ne suis pas sûr d'avoir jamais éprouvé ce qu'on appelle le remords, mais si quelque chose s'en approche, c'est bien la pensée d'avoir côtoyé vingt ans ce chagrin sans le reconnaître.

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

Interesting people always have a past.

I packed everything I had into the same suitcase I had brought with me. I was leaving the city with about as much stuff as I had arrived with. But I had learned a lot - about myself and other people.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

No emotion is the final one.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.

Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.

I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.