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 More about this quote Tags: justice wisdom learning intelligence safety gods childhood growth lying parental infallibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: potential growth possibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: life progress change growth fruit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
. . . and down they forgot as up they grew. —e. e. cummings More about this quote Tags: growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: awareness history change death responsibility growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's time again. Tear up the violets and plant something more difficult to grow. —James Schuyler More about this quote Tags: time growth planting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. —Ellen Glasgow More about this quote Tags: progress change growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. —Pablo Neruda More about this quote Tags: change growth inevitability spring flowers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. —William Cowper More about this quote Tags: growth plants gardens Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. —Wendell Phillips More about this quote Tags: past growth evolution revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. —Georgia O'Keeffe More about this quote Tags: friendship growth intimacy endurance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. —Norman Mailer More about this quote Tags: life growth transformation cost Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
…you are meant to grow into a true human being. Right now you are to a human being what an acorn is to an oak tree. A good start, that's all. You've got a long way to go, baby, and you're not going to grow into your full potential sitting in front of the laptop, bag of Cool Ranch Doritos in one hand, dick in the other, anime porn boring a hole in your corneas and consciousness. Just a thought. —Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk More about this quote Tags: becoming growth transformation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: perspective growth decay richness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you meet an extraordinary person, it's like they get inside you, under your ribs, and shuffle everything inside you around until they find space for greatness to grow. But extraordinary people always get away. And when they leave, they take that little part of you with them. Suddenly you find yourself with a gap in your chest that you don't know how to live with. Suddenly you're frightened of being yourself without them. —Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir More about this quote Tags: fear friendship loss growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email