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Quotes About Growth

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~ Octavia E. Butler
All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God
~ Octavia E. Butler
His mistake was in seeing her as a young girl. She was already a missile, armed and targeted.
~ Octavia E. Butler
It scares me how many things I've got to learn. How will I learn them?
~ Octavia E. Butler
To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.
~ Octavia E. Butler
A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I want you to be serious. I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
~ Octavia E. Butler
She had learned to keep her sanity by accepting things as she found them, adapting herself to new circumstances by putting aside the old ones whose memories might overwhelm her. She
~ Octavia E. Butler
A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.
~ Octavia E. Butler
All successful life is Adaptable, Opportunistic, Tenacious, Interconnected, and Fecund. Understand this. Use it. Shape God.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Most Humans lose access to old memories as they acquire new ones. They know how to speak, for instance, but they don't recall learning to speak. They keep what experience has taught them—usually—but lose the experience itself. We
~ Octavia E. Butler
Consider-- We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.
~ Octavia E. Butler
God is Change And hidden within Change Is surprise, delight, Confusion, pain, Discovery, loss, Opportunity, and growth. As always, God exists To shape And to be shaped.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Consider: Whether you're a human being, an insect, a microbe, or a stone, this verse is true. All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I sat where I was, more depressed than ever, hating the whole hopeless, stupid business and wondering whether the human species would ever grow up enough to learn to communicate without using fists of one kind or another.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Power came the way a child came -- with agony.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Seize change. Use it. Adapt and grow.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I wanted to disappear. Instead, I grew to be six feet tall. Boys in particular seemed to assume that I had done this growing deliberately and that I should be ridiculed for it as often as possible.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Earthseed Cast on new ground Must first perceive That it knows nothing.
~ Octavia E. Butler
In six years, she had gone from nothing to nothing.
~ Octavia E. Butler
All prayers are to Self And, in one way or another, All prayers are answered. Pray, But beware. Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I would like to give them a grove of oak trees, I said. Trees are better than stone- life commemorating life.
~ Octavia E. Butler
You can't come back all at once any more than you can leave all at once. It takes time. After a while, though, things will fall into place.
~ Octavia E. Butler