Quotes About Growth

Even though I was only sixteen, I knew enough to understand that it was one of the most important and most powerful moments I would ever have.

Life is not fair, but it is what we have to deal with. And we are going to deal with it so that we can live. No, so that we can thrive.

Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead to somewhere." I wrote this ten years ago. "Can fear walk us to something better?

There are so many firsts to raising kids, and parents are told to catch them all. But they don't warn you about the lasts. The last baby onesie. The last time you tie their shoes. The last time they think you have every answer in the world.

How can I be my best if I never fail, and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.

My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call breaking is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.

love yourself,.,.,.,for the sake of your better future

Is that what you think of when you think of me? Gogol asks him. Do I remind you of that night? Not at all, his father says eventually, one hand going to his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now. You remind me of everything that followed.

She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

Because in the end to learn a language, to feel connected to it, you have to have a dialogue, however childlike, however imperfect.

learning was an act of rediscovery, knowledge a form of remembering.

Reading in another language implies a perpetual state of growth, of possibility. I

Should I dream of a day, in the future, when I'll no longer need the dictionary, the notebook, the pen? A day when I can read in Italian without tools, the way I read in English? Shouldn't that be the point of all this? I don't think so. When I read in Italian, I'm a more active reader, more involved, even if less skilled. I like the effort. I prefer the limitations. I know that in some way my ignorance is useful to me.

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth. —NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, "The Custom-House

They don't understand why I want to take such a risk. These reactions don't surprise me. A transformation, especially one that is deliberately sought, is often perceived as something disloyal, threatening.

The moments of transition, in which something changes, constitute the backbone of all of us. Whether they are a salvation or a loss, they are moments that we tend to remember.

Une langue étrangère, c'est comme un muscle frêle, délicat. Si l'on ne s'en sert pas, il s'affaiblit.

A transformation, especially one that is deliberately sought, is often perceived as something disloyal, threatening.

We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose existence depended on the production of those words.

And so the eight months are put behind them, quickly shed, quickly forgotten, like clothes worn for a special occasion, or for a season that has passed, suddenly cumbersome, irrelevant to their lives.

Again, as it was after Udayan's death, there was an acute awareness of time, of the future looming, accelerating. The baby's lifetime, so scant, already outdistancing and outpacing her own. This was the logic of parenthood.

Credo che ciò che può cambiare la vita esista sempre al di fuori di noi.