Quotes About Growth

If the peace lily stops flowering, just be patient. It will bloom again.

Well, it's like, uh holding on to a hurt- uh, hugging a hurt, one teacher calls it. Well, it, uh, like, just creates more hurt -Bindi

It'll be messy, but after a day you'll be zipping around as though you were a thousand years old again.

One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means. ~ Badsha Khan, quote in Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, p. 87

Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know? Far better to read a few books and make them your own than to read many books quickly and superficially.

Live only for yourself and you will never grow; live for the welfare of all those around you and you will grow to your full stature.

For all its emphasis on sexual and romantic experience, Girls never suggests that a smoothly pleasant sex life is something worthy of serious aspiration. The ultimate prize to be wrung from all of these baffling sexual predicaments is a deeper understanding of oneself.

Write something every day,' she said, 'even if it's only a line, it will protect you.

He lay beside me all those years while I turned and twisted myself to fit beside him...

Once upon a time there were two seven-year-old boys named Bruce and David. They both had mother s who loved them very much. Each boy's day began differently.

Whatever the times, suffering eventually touches every life. How we live with it, and help others to, is one of the great creative and ethical opportunities

Slowly, a gentle, quiet, personal victory of the spirit grows out of her fear and doubt.

This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.

By reducing the population, it would alleviate the conditions of poverty and unrest that might lead developing nations to embrace communism, and instead promote the growth of markets for consumer goods and the embrace of capitalism.

This process involves three distinct phases: awareness, emotional healing, and empowerment. Yet, regardless of the type of relationship, the process is always one of reclaiming yourself.

Without parental grounding, she lacks the help she requires to process her intense emotional responses or the distorted versions of her idealized self. Stalled on the threshold of selfhood, the psyche of the child becomes increasingly preoccupied with her external self.

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened.... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his REAL self that can dare and do and win out!...

Side by side stood The Lady of the Lake, Treasure Island, and David Copperfield; and coverless and dogeared lay Robinson Crusoe, The Arabian Nights, and Grimm's Fairy Tales. There were more, many more, and David devoured them all with eager eyes. The good in them he absorbed as he absorbed the sunshine; the evil he cast aside unconsciously—it rolled off, indeed, like the proverbial water from the duck's back.

Ya sé que eres traidora y que me tienes buena voluntad. Lo bueno crece junto con lo malo.

There is a middle road in which you don't hold back or push forward too much. That's the road to be explored.

You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas — better to write down what refutes and weakens them!

Del azar de lo leído depende lo que eres

The crowd is the same everywhere, in all periods and cultures; it remains essentially the same among men of the most diverse origin, education and language. Once in being, it spreads with the utmost violence. Few can resist its contagion; it always wants to go on growing and there are no inherent limits to its growth. It can arise wherever people are together, and its spontaneity and suddenness are uncanny.

Vom Zufall des Gelesenen hängt es ab, was du bist.