All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

—Ellen Glasgow

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About Ellen Glasgow

Portrait of Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim. A lifelong Virginian, Glasgow portrayed the...

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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

—Ellen Glasgow

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

—Ellen Glasgow

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It's time again. Tear up the violets and plant something more difficult to grow.

—James Schuyler

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We forget that we ourselves are a part of history, that we are the product of growth and are condemned to perish if we lose the capacity for further growth and change. We are ourselves history and share the responsibility for world history and our position in it. But we gravely lack awareness of this responsibility.

—Herman Hesse

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. . . 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

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The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.

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