Quotes About Growth

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them as they really are.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

Not problems so much. Just opportunities to learn patience.

Nothing fails like failure.

For the past is not fixed: it changes as we change, and we look back and perceive in it different messages, different patterns. Our past selves speak to our future selves. We are part of a continuing process.

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

Ye sleeping buds, break Open your green cerements, and wake To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." ? Margaret Fuller

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Very early I knew that the only objective in life was to grow

Here, as elsewhere, the gain of creation consists always in the growth of individual minds, which live and aspire, as flowers bloom and birds sing, in the midst of morasses; and in the continual development of that thought, the thought of human destiny, which is given to eternity adequately to express, and which ages of failure only seemingly impede.

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader

Margaret Heffernan

Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart," Rilke wrote, advising a young poet, "and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue.… Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer.… [T]his is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people."9

We can't change this world, but we can change ourselves so that we can be of service to this world.