Quotes About Growth

I was born with a book list i will never finish

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Growing up is like taking down the walls of your house and letting strangers in.

Age is so misleading--you are the same on the inside as ever, only your outsides are different. Or, perhaps you have changed, but it is not like the younger self goes away--you just go on adding layers to the onion. [Édouard Manet]

The keys to not just survival but success, Busch understood, lay in diversification, distribution, and marketing.

Life's challenges aren't supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.

Somos de tal naturaleza que nada nos lleva tan lejos y tan alto como los impulsos de nuestros errores

El dolor es el alimento esencial del amor; cualquier amor que no se haya nutrido de un poco de dolor puro, muere

A field tends of itself to multiply.

There is the possible in the organism. The embryo is not simple matter, but matter which refers to the future.

Behavior develops 'in a spiral'...Every motor theme of embryonic life can be considered as a theme that will be elaborated at a higher level in postnatal life.

Two things are certain about freedom: that we are never determined and yet that we never change, that, retrospectively, we can always find in our past the anticipation of what we have become.

True development, true maturation, consists in a double phenomenon of both surpassing and maintaining the past. To truly surpass the past is also to conserve it; in becoming something more, one must not refuse to affirm what one has been.

Infantile prehistory does not remain inert in the adult. Rather, infantile prehistory is perpetually re-created by the adult's current attitudes.

Until three months, the infant does not have the concept of his own body but only an impression of incompleteness.

Far from being limited to the first years, language acquisition is coextensive with the very exercise of language.

The child and adult reflect each other like two mirrors endlessly placed face to face. The child that we believe exists is the reflection we desire. We are all indissolubly tied to the fact that the other is facing us the way we are facing him.

The child's consciousness is different from the adult's both in content and organization. Children are not, as previously thought, 'miniature adults.' Thus, contrary to the negative account, the child's consciousness is not identical to the adult's in everything except for its incompleteness and imperfection. The child possess another kind of equilibrium than the adult kind; therefore, we must treat the child's consciousness as a positive phenomenon.

When a man pities himself, he feels he is owed—like the dog. If you feel that you are owed, you will never begin truly to work on yourself.