Quotes About Growth

You're tall enough when you can reach the lightswitch.

Sometimes a small change could make all the difference.

Was that how every couple functioned after time? Seeing the contours of someone else's intelligence so much more easily than your own?

There is no growth without pain. No life without suffering.

Sometimes, we can't go forward until we go back.

All around the walls were espaliered apricot, peach and fig trees, and in the centre were squared beds of strawberries, currants, and sweet little musk-melons.

Some day you might soar like an eagle, but for now, let me help you to flap your wings.

Some day, you might soar like an eagle, but for now, let me try to teach you how to flap your wings.

It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.

It's scary to try something different when you don't know how it'll work out, but that's when the best things can happen. The things that surprise you and change you. Those things can make *you* different" -Salma

I wasn't sure if we'd ever be the same kind of friends we'd been when we were little. Maybe being two peas in a pod was over, but maybe we could be more like two wild blueberries: two of a kind, but different, too." -Lily

One thing I'd learned about moving was that once you were there, it was better to just look ahead. Because even if you went back to visit the places and people you left behind, it was never the same — except in photos.

Sometimes understanding comes in little drops and other times it rushes in like the tide, rolling everything over as it comes.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

And, finally, I know, too. That throwing away this mess doesn't mean I'm giving something up. Or losing something I can't get back. It's just that there are too many pieces and too much dust. I'm just ready for something whole." —Pete Cassidy

But he finally saw how pain caused one of two things: A reverence for life. Or killing. Both grew from the same seed.

In Europe, however, the standard of living has not been reversed, except temporarily in time of war, since the late 1600s. No one knows the causes for this, although much analysis has been made, the best known being that of Adam Smith who argued, in The Wealth of Nations (1776), that societies can promote economic growth by establishing peace, low taxes, and impartially implemented laws to protect property and investments.3

Going beyond our ordinary concept of self is what always brings us the greatest sense of joy in life. Going beyond our own boundaries brings us an ecstatic awareness of how we are truly created in connection with all that is.

The biggest change we can make and the most exhilarating is to change ourselves

Openness is a particularly wonderful personality trait to improve, since it's predictive of better health and longer life.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

Dicey looked out over the tall marsh grasses, blowing in the wind. If the wind blew, the grasses had to bend with it.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.