Quotes About Growth

You have a responsibility to see that your wounded selves do not get in the way of your warrior selves.

Between the 6th and 7th grade, something happens to your eyes. they water a lot. I think its so you can get all the watering out of the way before you begin wearing mascara.

I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting antlers or something.

Recovery from codependence is a lot like a growing up process - we must learn to do the things our dysfunctional parents did not teach us to do: appropriately esteem ourselves, set functional boundaries, be aware of and acknowledge our reality, take care of our adult needs and wants, and experience our reality moderately.

Todos los niños nacen artistas. El problema es cómo seguir siendo artista cuando creces.

A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

it's not our experiences that form us but the ways in which we respond to them;

Il est urgent de placer l'humain et la nature au cÅ"ur de nos préoccupations et l'économie à leur service. S'obstiner à maintenir le profit illimité et la croissance indéfinie comme fondement de l'ordre mondial est totalement suicidaire.

The trees are extremely alive . . .

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.

in the course of the growth of research; so that, when they reach the end of their analyses they cannot tell with any certainty whether the structure they have reached is the essence of the matter they are studying, or the reflection of their own thought.

But I have so much to learn!" Zane cried plaintively. "Then get to it, Death," she said, closing the door behind her.

then America still has the power to change, and to change quickly and for the better. And I hope it does, because a successful America, with a new-found

Become what you are, having learned what that is.

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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Knowledge is the food of the soul.

Those who don't know must learn from those who do.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve

Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.