Quotes About Growth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of pick themselves up and hurt off as if nothing had happened

Los hombres del comienzo no deben ser juzgados completamente bajo la luz del fin. Tenía que aprenderse todo; tenía que sufrirse todo. Pero los que aprendieron más lentamente no fueron los que tenían que sufrir más.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

I don't reproach the spring for starting up again. I can't blame it for doing what it must year after year. I know that my grief will not stop the green.

But any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

You're still a young man/woman. It's not too late to learn hw to unwind. Who said you have to take it on the chin?

Life, you're beautiful (I say) you just couldn't get more fecund, more befrogged or nightingaley, more anthillful or spoutsprouting,,, Oh how grassy is this hopper, how this berry ripely rasps... I tug at life by its leaf hem: will it stop for me, just once, momentarily forgetting to what end it runs and runs

When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity

A jak tak se svými Papíry a Myslí dovádÄ›l, inteligentnÄ›ji se stával stále stále inteligentnÄ›jÅ¡ím a ta jeho inteligence, sama sebou rozmnožená a sama na sobÄ› obkro?mo sedíc, v tak ukrutnou inteligenci pÃ…â"¢er?stala, že ?lovÄ›ka až hr?za jímala!

Có? wy wiecie o triumfie, który pozwala rozkoszowa? siÄ™ wÅ'asnÄ… niedojrzaÅ'oÅ›ciÄ… i jest jednoczeÅ›nie jej wyswobodzeniem i przezwyci??eniem?

I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in implanting in their soules a favorable image of me, this image would in turn shape me; and so, willy-nilly, I would become mature.

Look for another bed if yours is occupied. I don't want the miserable little bit of your life. You're just not enough for me, my boy. First, you have to live. Kick ass, and let yourself be ass-kicked. One day, when you're totally drunk, up to the top, when you're paralyzed, struggling to move and lying in the mud, then we can talk again. But for now, get real, ok? And now your clear the premises, my darling boy. Your little handful of life is not fucking enough. Keep it. I don't want it.

Knurrewahn hatte viel durchgemacht; aber er war nicht weise geworden.

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not where ships belong.

I was able to liberate Soon-Yi from a terrible situation and provide her with an opportunity to flower and realize her potential, and she would never have to eat a bar of soap or long for a hug or get hit with a phone again.

I, like a fatuous dunce who didn't realize how bad I was, jumped right in with the confidence of a true know-nothing. I practiced

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

Love betters what is best

Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted - Sylvia Plath's epitaph (from Wu Cheng'en's novel Journey to the West aka. Monkey, translated by Arthur Waley)

By consciously seeking enlightenment, you will progress quickly, receiving the rewards of ever-greater enjoyment, peace, success, good fortune, and well-being.

When anything happens to you that seems unfortunate, even if it is hurtful or takes something precious from you, see it as a beneficial occurrence.

Las personas adultas se avergüenzan de su infancia como de su inocencia, y luego también de su juventud, porque lo más fácil y lo más cómodo y lo de mejor gusto es olvidar a tiempo lo que ya no se tiene.