Quotes About Growth

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

Particularly difficult for partners is the reassertion of self, unless they have been very strong as individuals throughout the partnership. Learning to say 'I' instead of 'We' can be a painful task for two people who have grown into each other and become enmeshed.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

had grown tonight, since Gordy and Crystal both brought friends. Joan was ecstatic at the popularity their little

felt the sting of rejection.

If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait.

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

I am rooted, but I flow.

La vie, c'est le mouvement, t'as pas fini de quitter des gens

Changer, c'est toujours perdre un bloc de soi. On le sent qui se détache, après un temps d'adaptation. C'est un deuil et un soulagement en même temps.

Problems is not the problems it's just the way of success!

All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily on to the very end of life.

The gigantic will which Buddha and Jesus threw over the world, whence did it come? Whence came this accumulation of power? It must have been there through ages and ages, continually growing bigger and bigger, until it burst on society in a Buddha or a Jesus, even rolling down to the present day.

It is practice first and knowledge afterwards.

We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

The seed is put in the ground, and earth and air and water are placed around it. Does the seed become the earth; or the air, or the water? No. It becomes a plant, it develops after the law of its own growth, assimilates the air, the earth, and the water, converts them into plant substance, and grows into a plant.

day when you do not come across any problems you can be sure that you are travelling on the wrong path

In 1907 Edmund Gosse thought he had to leave his father to become himself; seventy years later Geoffrey Wolff knows he cannot leave his father because he has become his father.

The exchange will always deepen, even if the friendship does not.

If fantasy play provides the nourishing habitat for the growth of cognitive, narrative, and social connectivity in young children, then it is surely the staging area for our common enterprise: an early school experience that best represents the natural development of young children.