Quotes About Growth

So many different formulas can work that there's no real formula. What's important is to learn from whomever or whatever you can, at your own rate, in your own way. How or when you learn doesn't matter, so long as the learning occurs.

We must continue up the steps because the path is right, and the process of climbing is all that matters.

We needn't look any further ahead than today or commit to any more than taking one step. When we've taken one, we can commit to taking another. Pretty soon we've reached fifty. Pretty soon we've reached a hundred. Pretty soon we've reached zen.

IT helps to think of the whole development thing as a process; you go in looking like a girl, and you'll come out at the other end looking like a woman. The stuff in the middle is just what everyone goes through, it;s almost never much fun.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.

Nothing stands still, except in our memory.

A habit of solitude in early childhood is not easily broken. Indeed, it may prove lifelong.

This is important: he sees me in a certain way, a way he will never deviate from. In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.

I don't know then that one day I won't be seventeen. I don't know that youth doesn't last, that it's only a moment, and then it disappears and by the time you finally realize it, it's too late. It's finished, vanished, lost. There are some around me who can sense it; the adults repeat it constantly but I don't listen. Their words roll over me but don't stick. Like water off the feathers of a duck's back. I'm an idiot. An easygoing idiot.

En fin de compte, l'amour n'a été possible que parce qu'il m'a vu non pas tel que j'étais, mais tel que j'allais devenir.

In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.

I don't know then that one day I won't be seventeen. I don't know that youth doesn't last, that it's only a moment, and then it disappears and by the time you finally realize it, it's too late. It's finished, vanished, lost.

C'est important : il me regarde d'une certaine manière et n'en déviera pas. En fin de compte, l'amour n'a été possible que parce qu'il m'a non pas tel que j'étais, mais tel que j'allais devenir.

Is this what it means to become an adult? Giving up the beliefs which reassure us, which help us to survive?

Au début, la douleur était atroce, puis elle s'est dissipée. La douleur était comme un mur que j'avais franchi, passant de l'autre côté.

Le problème, voyez-vous, c'est que quand on est grand, on oublie, on oublie presque tout, et on oublie surtout qu'on a été enfant.

En coupant du temps on en fabrique.

Parfois, on aime ses propres cicatrices.

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empowered by those values, when we soon encounter them as we develop, or when they keep crossing our paths as we grow old.

I limiti, le trappole, le impossibilità mi sono necessari, vado loro incontro ogni giorno. Ritengo che la frusta sia necessaria, a condizione che a maneggiarla sia l'allievo, non il maestro.

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.