Quotes About Growth

What can we do? We cannot enforce. We try to explain. We want to empower. But no one can come and change them if they do not want themselves -Ahmed Maalim Mohamed

there was also something in me that felt contained there; that needed a different setting in which to grow. It was perhaps a mark of my arrogance and immaturity that I believed I had to leave in order to do so.

You've got to learn to leave the table when love's no longer being served.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait to improve others until we have seen ourselves as we are - and have changed.

Desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is the choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing - food, sex, power, fame - will make you happy is to deceive yourself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

Life's not easy, try romancing with it.

I was afraid of becoming used to the sorrow that had grown like a gnarled tree inside me.

Not everything children experience has to be put on their level in order to do them good. Some things must be. But not everything.

Lo que me atormenta es mi propia ignorancia y mi incapacidad. En Ispahán aprenderé a ayudar a aquellos por los que ahora no puedo hacer nada.

experienced," Rob J. said.

I tell myself that some might be saved if I knew more.

We all become caricatures of ourselves, if we live long enough

If there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here (in your head). You've got to get physically fit between your ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be thought.

But you grew out of it." "Grew? No. I burned it all down, drank myself into a stupor, pissed off everyone I knew." They think about that for a moment, how sometimes the only way to learn not to play with fire is to go up in flames.

But in the same way a man's nose and ears become exaggerated as he ages, so do the psychological issues that define him. We

You have kids and you think I made you, so we're the same, but it's not true. You just get to live with them for a while and maybe help them figure things out.

And what is adolescence if not a great height from which we are all expected to jump?

You bring a child into this fractious, chaotic world out of the heat of your womb, and then spend the next ten years walking beside them while they figure out how to be a person.

For a time it seemed their marriage would be just another houseplant that had failed to thrive, choked to death by the lack of money and the death of dreams

Don't you see? they cried. All we have to do is change.

They think about that for a moment, how sometimes the only way to learn not to play with fire is to go up in flames.

Anyone who has ever stood at a great height and felt the impulse to jump recognizes the draw. And what is adolescence if not a great height from which we are all expected to jump?

The only thing that can change who we are is life.