Quotes About Growth

economics is a living thing—and to live implies both imperfection and change.

Most actions do not aim at anybody's defeat or loss. They aim at an improvement in conditions.

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Trying to figure out what happened to me isn't important. It's what I do with what I've learned that counts.

There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.

She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were told what to do. Adults made up their own minds, even when the options tore them apart.

and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Reality is frigid; I have to dip one toe at a time and grow accustomed to the shock before wading in further.

I was surprised that Kurt seemed to understand that you might never love someone as hard as you had the first time you'd fallen; I was even more surprised to learn that maybe you could.

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

The minute I stand up, I've jumped off the cliff. The world goes by in a haze of color and light; my weight accelerates, head-over-heels. Then I think, falling is the first step in learning how to fly.

The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over.

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

In the real world, you can't just turn a page and feel better.

I can't answer a single one of these, which is how I know that whether I'm ready or not, I'm growing up.

I didn't want to invade his privacy; I didn't want to fight with him; I didn't want anyone else to ever hurt him. I just wanted him to be a child forever." She glanced up, crying harder now. "But you can't do that, if you're a parent. Because part of your job is letting them grow up.

True love is like bread. It needs the right ingredients, a little heat, and some magic to rise.

Later, as I got to know her, I'd realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become. I imagine she thought the same, meeting me.

I knew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by the time he was thirty-five…but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child's life, no matter how much you want to.

did not realize at that time that when you plant seeds, you also get roots.

At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen.

Cuando eres adolescente no eres intocable. Eres estúpido.

But identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through—the man you fell in love with years ago might look the same and speak the same and smell the same yet be completely different.