Quotes About Growth

a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect.

You get more misanthropic every day. - I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.

I also think it's possible for us to be better people tomorrow than we are today." He had no idea, of course, whether any of these things were true, in whole or in part. Still, what possible good could come of believing otherwise? —

Let us not forget Colby and the liberating effects of higher education. Though it doesn't liberate everyone, does it?

Miles smiled and gave her a kiss on top of the head, breathing her in, this kid who wasn't a kid anymore but still smelled like one. Everything about his daughter seemed just about right, including the way the second thing she said often contradicted the first. Things were going okay. Except they weren't.

Had I been more, I'd be more. Simple.

maybe people did wear chains of their own forging, but often those chains were half complete before they'd added their own first heavy link. Maybe completing other people's work was the business of life.

Enduring what couldn't be cured, she supposed, was what people meant by being adult, though it was ironic that so few of them—including her parents—had mastered the skill themselves.

Man starts thinking this late in life, no previous experience or proper guidance

To accept life in its disjointed pieces is an adult experience of freedom, but still these pieces must lodge and embed themselves somewhere, hopefully in a place that allows them to grow and endure.

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.

Newton said, 'If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants.' These days we stand on each other's feet!

When trying to write your way to a happier life, expressing gratitude is just the tip of the iceberg.

Dewdrop joins dewdrop Till a petal holds a pool Reflecting its rose.

Everyone has one system they use and one they are building, but most do not see the bigger picture of the system they are in.

Self-aware learners create exceptional performances.

How am I ever going to know all the stuff I need to know? I mean, I need to learn everything. " "Tonight?" Etienne kept a perfectly straight face. "I'm not sure I'm up to it.

Maybe some of these new changes in her life weren't going to be so bad after all.

I thought you'd snap out of it. I thought, with a little time, you'd lighten up and see how it didn't matter!

I think even then I knew Omar would be going away, would be leaving the land to explore cities and towns. But still I tried as hard as I could-it was my job-to plant a sense of the wild within him: something that calls one back into the interior, back into the shadows and safety of a place that still has reverence to it. Within every atom of it.

It is a gradual kind of strengthening. It takes a long time to see how the losses build you up, rather than strip you down and wear you away.

In four more years, after Grandfather died, Father would move to Fredericksburg and start a garden: not yet tired of living, but tired, I knew, of wondering what he had missed.

Pelo bem do conforto, abrimos mão de conhecer o mundo.