Quotes About Growth

understanding of the self as a mental agent grows out of interpersonal experience, particularly primary-object relationships

WHEN I WAS 25 I THOUGHT MY DAD WAS A FOOL NOW THAT IM 30 ITS AMAZING HOW SMART HE HAS GOTTON OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS.MY SECOND FAVORITE IS A MAN PREACHING TO ANOTHER ABOUT HOW HE BELIEVES THAT FAMILY COMES FIRST AND HOW HIS FRIEND SHOULD REMEMBER WHAT HIS PARENTS DID FOR HIM BEFORE HE DISRESPECTS THEM. WELL LETS JUST SAY I UNDERSTAND.

It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get, or what you are for what you might be. It's about letting go.

It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get, or what you are for what you might be. It's about letting go." -- Peter Gabriel about the meaning of the song "Solsbury Hill". From the book "Without Frontiers: The Life & Music of Peter Gabriel".

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

A focus on steady, long-term growth may be unheard of now in most public companies, but it was standard operating procedure for corporations in the 1950s and '60s, until we wilted in the face of foreign competition and the global economy and became obsessed with shareholder value.

We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.

Only the second-rate never make mistakes.

Even our garden lawn—most domesticated of foliage—needed mowing again almost as soon as it was done … like some lush, green five o'clock shadow.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

Our respect is such that we assume that children will try to fix their error and make better decisions next time.

Do you think that when Barack Obama was a young boy in kindergarten, do think that sometimes he made mistakes?

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.

Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, in an atmosphere of trust.

In the long run, you can never be any better than your surroundings. When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they are animals, you, too, become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

Every life contains within it a potential for clarification. He has lost that chance. The conflicts that are now pressing him down in his chair are the same ones he had in his thirties, when I got to know him, when he became my father. The only thing age has done is to whittle away his ability to confront them.

Nature is not a straitjacket that must be burst open. Nature is a blessing, an opportunity for growth that has been bestowed upon all living things.

Maybe this is where his humanity lies, in the traces of growing up with a sense of unfathomable insecurity: the need to plan, to make his world predictable.

Wydoro?le? znaczy najpierw zapomnie?, a potem zaprzeczy? temu, co by?o wa?ne, gdy si? by?o dzieckiem.

Sentimentality will always be man's first revolt against development.

It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

Watch anyone enter their arena of real mastery and you see it, the growing bigger than themselves. Love that.

One thing we are learning to be sure of: life does not get less strange.