Quotes About Growth

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.

Avoid getting all upset by your child's demands and rigidities. Try to see these behaviors not as badness or rebellion but rather as immaturity. Try to appreciate the wonder and complexity of growing behavior, even when it makes trouble for you.

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

You learn for yourself not for others, not to show off, not to put the other one down/ learning is your secret, it is all you have, it is the only thing you can call your own. nobody can take it away…

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

You learn for yourself not for others, not to show off, not to put the other one down/ learning is your secret, it is all you have, it is the only thing you can call your own. nobody can take it away… ? , Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed/Psychoanalytic Writings

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are 'like' everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty...

I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.

Self-awareness: it is one of the chief bonuses of advancing age. It is our consolation prize.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience...

THERE IS MORE TO THIS THING OF LOVE THAN MEETS THE EYE. I AM GOING TO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS A GREAT DEAL BUT I DON'T THINK IT WILL GET ME ANYWHERE. I THINK MAYBE THEY'RE ALL RIGHT WHEN THEY SAY THERE ARE DOME THINGS I WON'T KNOW ABOUT UNTIL I'M OLDER.

Harriet: How do you practice being an onion?

It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't," I told him. "Why not?" "Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

I don't fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

I am Willing to Learn New Things Every Day," (Hey, 2018, p. 116). Hey, L. L. (2018) Trust life: love yourself every day with wisdom from Luisa Hey. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, Inc.

Ama tu negatividad. Reconoce que la has creado para cubrir una necesidad. Ahora estás encontrando nuevas y positivas maneras de descubrir estas necesidades.

illness is an invitation to change your relationship with yourself for the better.

There is a natural rhythm and flow of life . Things come and things go. I believe that when something goes, it is to make place for something new.