Quotes About Growth

I've forgotten what gets revealed right after you break up with someone.

She wraps an arm around me and pulls me in tight. 'I know how you feel. You know I do. It's good to get whacked open at least once, though,' she says. 'You can't really love from inside a big thick shell.

You don't always see how much other people are shaping you.

loved that Amy Lowell poem when I first read it, how her lover was like red wine at the beginning and then became bread.

Brain ablaze. Feel like we are unearthing something and finding ourselves, knowing ourselves, stripping odd layers of our upbringing like old paint. Can't write about it fully yet. Don't understand it. I only know that when F leaves and B and I talk I feel like I am saying - and hearing - the first wholly honest words of my life.

It was strong, whatever was between us, thick, like the wet air and the smell of every green thing ready to bloom.

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us.

The road to success is always under construction

I'm all for education. Education ideally happens every moment of the day for people. Education is something that should never stop. The Limbaugh Institute, there are no graduates and no degrees 'cause the learning never stops here. You know, education's a pretty big umbrella.

Life is a lesson. You learned it when you're through.

Life is about more than just maintaining oneself, it is about extending oneself. Otherwise living is only not dying - SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR (1908-1986)

You have no idea how quickly a girl grows up.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

We shall sooner have the bird by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Sometimes the discovery of something we can classify as our voice coincides with a weariness with that voice, and the struggle begins to create a new voice.

Through the years, you've released parts of you. Some went into the sewer, others you left at your friends' houses, some on the sidewalk while riding your bike as a kid. Your body is used to being taken apart by pieces and put back together. Swapping parts is hardwired into human existence. It takes on a much larger role in death.

was. Laura saw it more as an opportunity to spend three months in

Sagacity did not magically arrive with age. As his family grew, so did his affections. The deeper he loved, the more easily he was injured. His heart had not become reinforced. It had softened--and ripened. It was a larger target and far more easily rent.

Keep moving. Have a goal, One day you will arrive at a place that is better than the place where you were, even if it is only in your head.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

Life is a river that never stops flowing. You can dam it, you can harness its power, you can poison it, but you can't stop it. A river never ends. It changes course and cuts through the land. It floods and damages and kills. It can be weakened by drought. But it never stops. It is the fundamental giver of life.