Quotes About Growth

True sorrows do not pass like clouds or inclement weather...Sorrows are absorbed over time, and you reshape yourself around them. How you absorb them makes you what you are for good or ill. I think the only true and right way is to take our sorrows into us bravely and wholly, knowing they will hurt, and accepting that sometimes pain is unavoidable. It is when grief is suppressed or hidden that it does harm

I used to hate boys... I grew up... Things changed. Now I hate men.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

A world of grief and pain, but the flowers bloom even then

If I have come further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Since the capital system cannot set limits to itself, also, it cannot differentiate between the growth of a child and the growth of a cancer.

Little children, headache; big children, heartache.

Rice is born in water and must die in wine.

Years and sins are always more than owned.

Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.

Às vezes a gente se imagina incompleto e é apenas jovem.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.

A veces uno se cree incompleto y es solamente joven.

When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.

Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.

A volte uno si crede incompleto ed è soltanto giovane.

These cities grew in approximately the same places as our cities do now, however different the shape of the continents was. There was even a New York that in some way resembled the New York familiar to all of you, but was much newer, or, rather, more awash with new products, new toothbrushes, a New York with its own Manhattan that stretched out dense with skyscrapers gleaming like the nylon bristles of a brand-new toothbrush.

the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.

onsuz yapamayaca??n bir ?eyi kenara b?rakmay? bir kez ba?ard???nda, bir ba?ka ?ey olmadan da yapabildi?ini, sonra bir ba?ka ?eyden de s?yr?labildi?ini göreceksin.

Crecer en círculos concéntricos, como los troncos de los árboles que cada año aumentan una vuelta.

The past is like a tapeworm, constantly growing, which I carry curled up inside me, and it never loses its rings no matter how hard I try to empty my guts in every WC, English-style or Turkish, or in the slop jars of prison or the bedpans of hospitals or the latrines of camps, or simply in the bushes, taking a good look first to make sure no snake will pop out, like that time in Venezuela.

Eu chegara ao limiar da adolescência e ainda me ocultava entre as raízes das grandes árvores do bosque para me contar histórias. Uma agulha de pinheiro podia representar para mim um cavaleiro ou uma dama ou um bufão; movimentava-a diante de meus olhos e me exaltava em relatos intermináveis. Depois ficava com vergonha dessas fantasias e fugia.

in short, life would be maintained as it had gone on till then, in its achieved, perfect forms, without metamorphoses or additions with dubious outcome, and every individual would be able to develop his own nature, to arrive at the essence of himself and of all things.

Che ce ne importa di chi è già un eroe, di chi la coscienza ce l'ha già? E' il processo per arrivarci che si deve rappresentare! Finché resterà un solo individuo al di qua della coscienza, il nostro dovere sarà di occuparci di lui e solo di lui!