Quotes About Growth

Nothing is ever changed at a single stroke, I know that full well, although a person sometimes wishes it could be otherwise.

The lilacs grew with no care given them, and in the early summer they hung like bunches of mild mauve grapes from branches with leaves like dark green hearts, and the scent of them was so bold and sweet you could smell nothing else, a seasonal mercy.

Well, you're young. You know a whole lot you won't know later on." ~ Christie Logan

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

This very moment is a seed from which tomorrow's flowers grow.

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

Now list six tasks that you currently face and create a Scenario Two for yourself:

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

I'll never know how many men loved her before me, but I know that each of them, whether he was good to her or wrong, did his part in shaping her, making her what she is.

Non saprò mai quanti uomini l'hanno amata prima di me, ma so che ognuno, accudendola o scalfendola, ha contribuito a plasmarla, a farla così com'è.

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.

Every now and then you get hit with hard times or good— who's to say? But then there are these tiny times in between when you look up at the tops of trees swaying or you sit don to a fine meal with a new family or you wake up alone and by the end of the day, you got yourself your first friend.

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Hardships make or break people.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

Rosebuds might be sweet, but one need never be so careful of the rose in full bloom.

even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. -A

Mahler, through her earlier work as a pediatrician and her psychoanalytic work with psychotic children, had become interested in how, during the first three years of life, a child had to separate from the mother-infant dual unity.

But the principal psychological achievements of this process take place in the period from about the fourth or fifth month to the thirtieth or thirty-sixth month, a period we refer to as the separation-individuation phase.

achievement of a separateness in the presence of mother.

Separation and individuation are conceived of as two complementary developments: separation consists of the child's emergence from a symbiotic fusion with the mother (Mahler, 1952), and individuation consists of those achievements marking the child's assumption of his own individual characteristics.