More quotations tagged with “growth”
… and down they forgot as up they grew.
—e. e. cummings
The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.
—Stewart Edward White
The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.
—Unknown
When a child first catches adults out—when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just—his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.
—John Steinbeck
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
—Karl A. Menninger