Quotes About Growth

Lon Birdie had said, 'Sammy has his daddy's temper, you don't want to cross him.' But Sammy would be crossed in this life again and again, and how would he learn to handle being crossed if the people who cared never crossed him?

the trees began to form

Come sit on my lap,' she said. Soon, very soon, he would think himself too big for lap-sitting. He got down from his chair and she picked him up; he was solid as anything. She held him close and swayed her body a little, like a cradle rocking, and soon he looked at her with the lovely solemnity that seemed to be a hallmark of their Jack Tyler, and said, ' I could prob'ly have a deviled egg now.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb. When you let God fill you with His love and forgiveness, the things you think you desperately want to hold on to start falling away  . . . and we hardly notice their passing.

The sin life in us must be transformed into the spiritual life." "How?" "Through sacrifice and obedience.

We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of spiritual knowledge, experience and love that has been given to us, and that we must constantly be looking forward eagerly for the highest good.' 

Something you'd written in a margin," said George, "I can't remember where…'The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Self discovery is something you cannot buy

The best we can do for others is work on ourselves.

If my client had not distracted his wife from her moments of unhappiness so that he could stay calm, she would have had the opportunity to learn to handle her own moods.

Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late summer and the sparkle of early autumn, between the ending of an old phase and the beginning of a fresh one.

Not that he disliked school; but it had to be regarded, he found, as another life, to be approached only by way of the Styx. You died on the station platform, were reborn, not without pangs, in the train, and emerged at the other end a different person, with a different language, a different outlook, and a different scale of values.

Voordat ze in mijn boekenkasten verdwijnen leef ik tussen stapels boeken als tussen bloeiende struiken.

Young love ends for hundreds of different reasons," Gertie said and sighed. Ida Belle nodded. "But usually, life strangles it to death.

It's what we do after all that's been done to us that matters.

should. I learned a long time ago to never close my mind to possibilities. Every time I did it made a fool of me.

I don't doubt that at some point I'll be as happy as I was before, but I don't think I'll ever be the same, if that makes sense.

Jane Austen's books are always, to some extent, concerned with the problem of learning by painful experience

People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.

To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we've used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown.

You see, in the morning I always practice imagination for an hour or two. It does me lots of good.

I believe sincerely that only those men who reach the stage where it is possible for them to combat a second tragedy within themselves, and not the first over again, are worthy of being called mature.