Quotes About Growth

Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the possibilities that can be born out of thoughts and musings, and they link together pattern that define our lives.

they say a baby's true babtism occurs when hefirst falls out of bed

But much more often I have seen the marriage and the family grow closer, better. Everybody learns to deal, has to help, has to be honest and say it sucks. Everybody has to laugh, everybody has to feel grateful when whatever else the child can't do he can kiss the hand that brushes his hair.

Youth is always impatient, even though, ironically, youth alone has time for patience.

Everything that's worth having in life hurts like the devil. There's no way round that.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

And I could tell you about things we been through, some awful ones, some wonderful, but I know that the things that make us are more than that, our lives are more than the days in them, our lives are our line and we go on. I type that and I swear I can see Ca'line standing in the green of Virginia, in the green of Afrika, and I swear she makes no sound but she nods her head and smiles.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.