Quotes About Growth

Adults have the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct. When we "grow up" we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of loss.

Look back only for as long as you must, Then go forward into the history you will make. Be good, then better.

These are the maps we make of ourselves, The foods and mountains, the world, The stars, the air we are for each other— These are the measure. We are ourselves, Every inch a mile for each other. My friend, that's all. And it is everything. We used to be somebody else, One here, one there, but now together We are today, and will be tomorrow.

I remember one woman making paper flowers to sell, with different herbs . . . She made them so fast, and so many . . . that as I watched, her first few zinnias became quickly enough a few hundred, and grew in their happiness to the size of sunflowers. The sunflowers themselves grew to the size of pumpkins, the snapdragons grew ominous, and the rosemary fragrant.

Also at times, on the surface of streams, Water?bubbles form And grow and burst And have no meaning at all Except that they're water?bubbles Growing and bursting.

Ni la perfección ni la madurez están entre mis metas.

A veces para salir adelante debes hacerte tira por dentro.

Y lo más triste del asunto es que va a tener razón: no soy su tipo. Al menos, ya no lo soy. Porque de que lo fui , lo fui. Pero algo pasó. Y éste es el resultado, supongo.

La gente termina pareciéndose a sus amigos, por lo que es clave elegirlos bien.

I don't want to be a prisoner of comfort.

The bird of youth flies away and doesn't come back. Fly, boy, fly!

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there's nothing you can do except watch them.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect; he becomes an adolescent, the day he forgives them he becomes an adult

Man should accept that he does not know very much at all and knows even less, when he places barriers to truth.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.

The months of the year, from January up to June, are a geometric progression in the abundance of distractions.

During every week from April to September there are, on the average, ten wild plants coming into first bloom.

L'atto di creare è generalmente riservato agli dei e ai poeti, ma anche la gente più umile può superare questa restrizione se sa come farlo. Per piantare un pino, per esempio, non è necessario essere un dio né un poeta, basta possedere una pala.

What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.