Quotes About Growth

They're all inside of us,...past people and present people. And probably even the people we'll become.

Finally sixteen and the moment like a hand holding me out to the world.

As the orchestra lifted into "Darling Nikki," I took small breaths to keep tears from coming. I had not expected this --to feel the close of a chapter. The girlhood of my life over now.

One day I'd have full breasts, hips, and large hands. One day, my body would tell the world stories beneath the fabric of my clothes.

But sometimes living pulls back the skin of another life. A possibility.

Somehow, my brother and I grew up motherless yet halfway whole. My brother had the faith my father brought him to, and for a long time, I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this.

My brother drove me to the subway, kissed my forehead, and hugged me hard. When had he become a man? For so long, he had been my little brother, sweet and solemn, his eyes open wide to the world. Now, behind small wire-rimmed glasses, he looked like a figure out of history. Malcolm maybe. Or Stokely.

Each door, each friend, each step—bringing me closer to who I was becoming.

Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Il ne peut pas y avoir un développement infini dans un univers fini.

Okurken eÄŸitimin kökünde insan? yaratmaya dair belli bir fikrin yatt???n? görüyorsunuz; sanki insan? yaratan eÄŸitimmiÅŸ gibi. Halbuki, iÅŸin doÄŸrusu insan? eÄŸitmek gereksizdir. Tüm eÄŸitimini kendisi edinir. Öyle ya da böyle eÄŸitir kendisini. Elbet bir ÅŸey öÄŸrenmek zorunda kalacak ve bunun için dirsek çürütecektir.

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

As much as anything, getting an education cured me of my complex about not having an education

Le vieux Hemingway énonçait une règle très simple: l'écrivain devait toujours s'en tenir aux sujets qu'il connaissait le mieux.

La vie est une cerise La mort est un noyau L'amour un cerisier

Înainte de a combate moartea, trebuie s? înve?i s? tr?ie?ti.

Astfel, omul r?mâne, în acela?i timp, un redutabil animal de prad? ?i un ucenic vr?jitor genial, dar... foarte infantil. ?i totu?i, în el trebuie s? sper?m atâta timp cât putem s? sper?m, ?i el trebuie s? cear? încrederea semenilor s?i.

Nu este vorba de o fug?, ci de o re-cadrare, pe care o g?sesc foarte s?n?toas?. Sunt mai prezent în prezent ?i las viitorul la locul s?u, cu sau f?r? mine.

Este pu?in provocator, bineîn?eles, dar putem ast?zi s? consider?m omul ca celula canceroas? a organismului Terra. O celul? care prolifereaz? asigurându-?i dezvoltarea în detrimentul altora, distrugându-le pentru a-?i asigura propria sa dezvoltare.

Procesul de maturizare, care ar trebui s?-l conduc? pe fiecare mai aproape de el însu?i, trece prin eliberarea progresiv? de nevoia de a fi iubit ?i aprobat. ?i mai ales de nevoia de a fi iubit pentru ceva ce nu e?ti.