Quotes About Growth

She supposed it was a universal truth that mothers, after tearing out their hair and tacking their raw beating hearts to the outsides of their clothing for anyone to see, were given no warning that some-day their baby-holding days would be over.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.

Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Here is a perfect poem; to awaken a longing, to nourish it, to develop it, to increase it, to stimulate it – and to gratify it.

She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with the fragrance of her virtues.

Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.

todos os membros de sua numerosa família, por mais moços que fossem, acabaram, como ele dizia graciosamente ao seu senhor, por se colocar como um bicho-da-seda sobre as folhas do orçamento.

Çocuklu?umu, delikanl?l???m? anlatt?m ona; size anlatt???m gibi uzaktan hüküm vererek de?il, yaralar? hala kanayan genç adam?n ate?li sözleriyle... ... Bir ara sessiz geçti. Bu sessizlikte ruhlar?m?z ?u avutucu dü?ünce içinde birbiriyle evlendiler: Demek ki ac? çeken bir ben de?ilmi?im!

Their well-prepared passion had finally reached maturity through that which tends to deaden passions: gratification.

To bear a child is nothing; to nourish it is birth renewed every hour.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as frequently as the right ones.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

I didn't always want to be a dad.

I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.

Dear math, grow up and solve your own problems I am tired of solving them for you.