Quotes About Growth

With my mother, I felt helpless all the time. Sometimes I feel helpless as a mother, but I know it'll pass. And this time, there are things I can do to make it better. For example, Rose cries whenever I put her in the stroller, but once I start pushing the stroller, she's happy. I remind myself that crying is her way of expressing herself, because she can't speak, whereas my mom cried because she felt pain, and I didn't know how to make it stop.

I think feeling it, letting myself risk love and letting myself be loved, is one of the biggest challenges left for me.

Strange, now, how after so many years my mother's model is starting to recede. Before I became a mother, I was a motherless daughter, and "motherless" always overshadowed "daughter" in that phrase. Now I'm a motherless mother, and "mother" is the word that carries most of the weight. Early loss influences me, daily, but it doesn't define me anymore.

I know you feel too big for this place. But when you get out of here, you'll see how small you are in the world.

All the world over we are very conscious of the trees in spring, and watch with delight how the network of twigs on the wych-elms is becoming spangled with tiny puce flowers, like little beetles caught in a spider's web, and how little lemon-colored buds are studding the thorn. While as to the long red-gold buds of the horse-chestnuts — they come bursting out with a sort of a visual bang. And now the beech is hatching its tiny perfectly-formed leaves

There is nothing so dumb as a tree in full leaf.

A class struggling to assert itself, to discover its true shape, which lies hidden, as does the statue in the marble, in the hard, resisting material of life itself, be different from the same class when chisel and mallet have been laid aside, and it has actually become what it had so long been struggling to be.

It's hard to believe that a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. They don't have anything at all in common. But I guess it's just as strange that a kid turns into an adult. I never want to be like a grown-up. They don't have much fun. Greta and I are planning to live next door to each other when we grow up, and raise horses and dogs and keep a few cats. I guess we'll have to marry men who like animals.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Mistakes are their own instructors

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

From the egg.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.