Quotes About Growth

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.

For, you see, each day I love you more, Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Love is just a number and maturaity is just a level

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

Change everything except your loves.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Practice makes perfect.....But nobody's perfect......so why practice?

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll be surprised...as your solitude subsides .

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline, too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Love expands.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment.

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

...the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Ursula K Le Guin

Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, For which, the first is made.