Quotes About Growth

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

I like the beauty of being restored to myself, in the pollen light

You used to take my breath away. Now no one does.

Everything we have done we can come to despise

I'm sure I will change before I die, unless I die today or tomorrow.

I see my past drifting away . . . It isn't relevant to remember who I was, what my cares were.

I want us to be better people.

Se o Sol é doador de vida, simbolicamente vinculado com a dimensão espiritual, a Lua se relaciona com a manifestação do espírito. Em tudo ela está ligada à expressão prática de assuntos mundanos [...]. A Lua passa por todos os signos e toca cada aspecto em todo mapa uma vez por mês. Hoje, pode-se dizer, ela representa, em termos psicológicos, nossa 'tarefa de casa' psíquica, aprender e aplicar.

very nearly anonymous now having recently turned five thousand with the same wedge of yearning lodged in my chest as ever and getting accustomed to surviving like a bramble very good at growing anywhere you ought to praise me for this trailing bloom

6 a.m. scrabbling at the earth

Life plots elegantly.

Autumn is the season when you know what's coming next is harder than what is now. In pale spring you look forward to bright summer; in hot summer to the cool of fall; in winter to the hope of spring. In fall, you watch what you have blow away.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

After all, the word "travel" comes from the Latin "trepalium." Which, loosely translated, means "instrument of torture.

I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage.

I had surprised myself this year by jumping in to reshape my life before life stepped in to reshape it for me.

Peut-on changer de paysage extérieur sans déranger son paysage intérieur? Les voyages qu'on fait en soi-même? Aujourd'hui, je suis retournée dans mon passé, puis je suis partie vers un avenir qui prenait forme quelque part à la lisière de ma pensée. Mais je me suis aussi rendue dans un endroit rarement visité : l'innocence du moment présent.

After all, watching a child march successfully into the larger world is one of the greatest satisfactions parenthood has to offer.

Sometimes it was hard for me to connect the boy I knew—the skinny smart kid who collected lead soldiers and pursued Boy Scout merit badges—with the phenomenally successful man he'd become. But sooner or later, when we were together, some remark would inevitably trigger childhood memories and then we'd be off, zipping down a path that existed now only for the two of us.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.

Good shit takes time. Extend time, bend time, crip time.