Quotes About Growth

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

Now I become myself. It's taken time, many years and places.

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep ... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass.

The summer that I was ten–Can it be there was only onesummer that I was ten?The Centaur [1958]

The first time is always the hardest...getting your heartbroken. The first time–it's always coming from outer space. You never see it coming, but it will be easier next time.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

We become what we do.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.