Quotes About Growth

Wherever you turn, you run up against your childhood and hurt yourself because it's sharp-edged and hard, and stops only when it has torn you completely apart. It seems that everyone has their own and each is totally different. My brother's childhood is very noisy, for example, while mine is quiet and furtive and watchful. No one likes it and no one has any use for it.

childhood falls silently to the bottom of my memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.

Being young is itself temporary, fragile, and ephemeral. You have to get through it - it has no other meaning.

Time passed and my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

Måske, siger han, er du selv indviklet, så bliver dit liv det også.

Nu vallen de laatste resten van mij af als schilfers van een door de zon verbrande huid en eronder komt een ongepaste, onmogelijke volwassene tevoorschijn. Ik lees in mijn poesiealbum terwijl de nacht langs het raam wandelt en zonder dat het doorheb, glijdt mijn kindertijd stilletjes naar de bodem van mijn herinneringen, die bibliotheek van het gemoed, waaruit ik voor de rest van mijn hele bestaan kennis en ervaring zal opdiepen.

A gyerekkor hosszú és sz?k, mint egy koporsó, és egyedül nem lehet kijutni bel?le.

Het is lastig om jezelf te blijven als de dingen om je heen constant van vorm veranderen.

I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things in new ways and how to get along in places you don't already know inside out. I want to put some life in you...

Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an eye on herself.

There are empty spaces that must be respected – those often long periods when a person can't see the pictures or find the words and needs to be left alone.

Explosion is a beautiful word an a very big one. Later I learned others, the kind you can whisper only when you're alone. Inexorable. Ornamentation. Profile. Catastrophic. Electrical. District Nurse. They get bigger and bigger if you say them over and over again. You whisper and whisper and let the word grow untilnothing exists except the word.

It's a pity that exciting things always stop happening when you're not afraid of them anymore and would like to have a little fun.

You sentimentalise them because they're little," she said. "But the format doesn't matter. I have gradually learned that everyone, absolutely everyone of every size, is out to get something. People want things. It comes to them naturally. Of course they get more skilful with age, and they're no longer so disarmingly obvious, but the goal doesn't change. Your children simply haven't had time to learn how it's done. That's what we call innocence.

In my opinion, one should always make the most out of an awful situation

When you were small you wanted to know. Now you want to become. I want to do.

I mean, something has to go wrong before you know a law is called for. (Hodgkins)

Jos yritän saada kaiken entiselleen, niin minusta itsestänikin tulee samanlainen kuin ennen. Alan taas pelätä.

Even potted plants got to be a responsibility, like everything else you took care of that couldn't make decisions for itself.

Du får aldrig ett eget ansikte förrn du lär dig att slåss.

They retained their wooden souls, and the curve of their backs had the enigmatic shape of growth itself and remained a part of the decaying forest

Había dejado de llover y pronto caería la noche. En el preciso momento en el que el sol se ponía algo ocurrió con el tentáculo verde que cubría la Casa Mumin. Perdía vigor y se secó tan rápido como había crecido. Las frutas se encogieron y cayeron al suelo. Las flores se marchitaban y las hojas se abarquillaban. Una vez más la casa se llenó de crujidos y crepitaciones.

The arabesques sank into the ground and turned green with moss, and the trees slipped deeper and deeper into each other's arms as time went by.

Of course you have to feel free. Naturally you must go away. I do understand that you have to be alone sometimes. (Moomintroll to Snufkin)