Quotes About Growth

Every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual.

That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

There was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual.

She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment.

She let her mind wander back over her stay at Grand Isle; and she tried to discover wherein this summer had been different from any and every other summer of her life. She could only realize that she herself--her present self--was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes and making the acquaintance of new conditions in herself that colored and changed her environment, she did not yet suspect.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside the fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Everything that has ever happened to me is still all with me.

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

You are the ever-expanding universe to me

How can you make a beautiful ending without making beautiful mistakes.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

William Spiver said that the universe was expanding…that means there will be more of everything! More cheese puffs, more jelly sandwiches, more words, more poems, more love. And more giant donuts…maybe even gianter donuts. Is gianter a word? It should be.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they're doing now.

you got to remember, you can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

I ain't the Princess Pea But someday I will be, The Pea, ha-hee. Someday, I will be.

We do not know what will become. What will become is what becomes, and that is all we know.

tongue after you lose a tooth. Time after time, my mind kept going to that empty spot, the spot where I felt like she should be. When I told Gloria Dump about Otis and how he got arrested, she laughed so hard she had to grab hold of her false teeth so they wouldn't fall out of her mouth.

It's different for everyone she said, you find out on your own. But in the meantime, you got to remember, you can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they're doing now.

But in the meantime, you got to remember, you can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

Kate DiCamillo

And he marveled, too, at how different he felt inside, how much lighter, as if he had set something heavy down and walked away from it, without bothering to look back.

Never enough. We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

I thought I was going nowhere, but now I see there was a pattern.

Look at the pebbles in the bottom of the pool, Miss Emily, so round and smooth and shining. Yes, but where did they get that beautiful polish, that satin skin, that lovely shape, Rebecca? Not in the still pool lying on the sands. It was never there that their angles were rubbed off and their rough surfaces polished, but in the strife and warfare of running waters. They have jostled against other pebbles, dashed against sharp rocks, and now we look at them and call them beautiful.