Quotes About Growth

teach you how to accept your nonacceptance

The truth will set you free, but not until it's done with you.' The

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn.

WE ARE WHAT WE WALK BETWEEN

greater when one's mind has been exercised and thus

Be a Student of the Game. Like most clichés of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard.

What is unfair can be a stern but invaluable teacher.

How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and fences can be mirrors. And between the nets and fences, opponents are also mirrors. This is why the whole thing is scary. This is why all opponents are scary and weaker opponents are especially scary.

You can be shaped, or you can be broken.

You play right up to your limit and then pass your limit and look back at your former limit and wave a hankie at it, embarking.

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed. —Frank Bidart, "Borges and I

Certain things not only can't be taught but can be retarded by other stuff that can be taught.

all that green just sits in the heat and seethes. Like

Siccome ti sono amico, ti risparmio le vaccate. Vuoi sapere da dove vengono i mangiabestie. Stammi a sentire, allora. I mangiabestie non si trovano. Si creano.

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

Praise everybody, I say to such: never be squeamish, but speak out your compliment both point-blank in a man's face, and behind his back, when you know there is a reasonable chance of his hearing it again. Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and popped it in; so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber.

Dalam pesona persahabatan, orang yang biasanya tidak menonjolkan diri bisa menjadi berani, yang pemalu menjadi percaya diri, yang pemalas menjadi giat, yang tidak sabar dan banyak gerak menjadi hati-hati dan tenang.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word… An acorn costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber.

He had not got beyond the theory as yet — the practice of life was all to come.

But she had never been a girl, she said; she had been a woman since she was eight years old. O why did Miss Pinkerton let such a dangerous bird into her cage?

I can see myself still myself all along the way I have gone. - Lady Abundance

Mi educación se vio interrumpida por mi ingreso a la escuela".

He's finding out, he's doing all right, he'll go to school but nobody's going to teach him anything.