Quotes About Growth

Perhaps she had seen what Jack would look like as an older boy, or a grown man, and what she saw in him riveted her with longing and desperation. (Or with fear and degradation, Jack Burns would one day conclude, because this same older girl suddenly looked away.)

el tipo de contemporización que se permite un joven cuando considera que ha «evolucionado» más que su maestro. Larch dotó a Fuzzy Stone de un inconfundible

Quel ch'è più arduo ad accettarsi, riguardo al passare del tempo, è che le persone che un tempo contavano tanto per noi siano adesso chiuse fra due parentesi.

In a living city, I could never have noticed so much. Living cities don't hold still.

heard all the grown-ups kiss Franny good night and I thought: Families must be like this—gore one minute, forgiveness the next.

Garpo žodžiais tariant, žmogus auga tik užbaigdamas viena ir prad?damas kita.

Churchill Park have their bellies turned toward the sun.

Life was like a cannon, Beld Yulan had always said. "You've got to clear the empty casings before you can fire again." As

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

I am not saying that personal development is more important than winning; on the contrary, I am saying that enjoying the journey of self-discovery, by removing some of the pressure and angst associated with winning at all costs, is one way of helping you to win more often.

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.

Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain, As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again

In Endymion I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.

I can feel the daisies growing over me.

Call the world, if you please, the vale of Soul-making. Then you will find out the use of the world.

The more I have known the more have I lov'd.

Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? A place where the heart must feel and suffer in a thousand diverse ways!

the further idea that to fit it for such tasks two things above all are necessary, growth in human sympathy through the putting down of self, and growth in knowledge and wisdom through strenuous study and meditation

All signs were pointing upward; his wheel was revolving skyward.

Get out of that womb-house for at least an hour a day. Take a walk, Ignatius. Look at the trees and birds. Realize that life is surging all around you. The valve closes because it thinks it is living in a dead organism. Open your heart and you will open your valve.

thought you'd make Levy Pants nationwide.

I jounced the limb.

Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations, letting its rocklike facts sift through and be accepted only a little at a time, only as much as he could assimilate without a sense of chaos and loss.