Quotes About Growth

Have you noticed how every tree is different here? All twisted by the wind and snow, but if that was all, they should have been twisted in the same way. It's as though every tree has made up its own mind exactly how it wants to grow.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

Jackie French

an' a daughter again,

Time feels as if it is on the other side of me now, way over, out across the sea, like another country. I don't live inside it any more and it doesn't rule me.

You have traveled far, but the hardest part of a journey is always the next step.

We don't get to choose our formative moments. Very often, adversity and failure shape us more permanently than fortune and success.

Madeleine Tully turned fourteen yesterday, but today she did not turn anything. Oh, wait. She turned a page.

The first birthday is the key to identity.

People went around warning you: Never imagine you can change someone, for people NEVER CHANGE. Then they talked about leopards and spots. Forgetting altogether about chameleons. Or that octopus, which lives on the ocean floor and can change its shape to become a stingray, a sea anemone, or even an eel

I am a student of love.

and vegetables seems

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

we must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.

what we call cultural evolution is essentially a constant growing and widening of the human imagination.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Life is like a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others

My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.

We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.

Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.

It's like you miss a year of your life,

All the nervousness she'd been feeling about skipping to fourth grade suddenly burbled up inside her.