Growing Quotes

Fear is something we all feel, but some people allow theirs to grow stronger than their courage.

~ Hafiz

That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.

~ Nick Hornby

Youth is wasted on the young.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Be game--take a chance--don't hide behind veils and veils of discretion... Go forward with what you have to say, expressing things as you see them. You are new evidence, fresh and young. Your work, the spirit of youth, you are the progress of human evolution. If age dulls you it will be time enough then to be ponderous and heavy--or quit. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be young, to continue growing--not to settle and accept.

~ Robert Henri

There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the stop button at just one moment to stop everything that came after. I had so many If Onlys, but each place I thought to stop meant missing something that came later. I needed it all, in the end, to make my own story find its finish.

~ Sarah Dessen

Your obsession with being in control of your mind makes you so stiff all the times; that is why our egos are growing, and our sense of humor is shrinking.

~ Jasz Gill

Coming out of the Tunnel....I am bursting with a new found feeling of my own existence.Strong and powerful frequencies.My mind is wandering to wide open fields and long-forgotten lands with limitless possibilities. I am not quite there yet.Holding still in anticipation,don’t want to miss hearing my inner voice – soft and deep.With me are friendly skies on rainy days and my life is getting warmer.

~ Anna Asche

If you can’t find any fun during childhood, you naturally won’t look for it as you grow up to maturity. You will grow ‘hard,’ and look upon fun as foolish. Also, if you don’t furnish fun for a child, don’t look for it to grow up bright, happy and loving. So, always put in a child’s path an opportunity to watch, talk about, and know, as many good things as you can.

~ Ernest Vincent Wright

God always has a plan. This isn't his fault. This is a test, something designed to help you grow closer to God. And. I know, somehow, God will use it.

~ C.b. Cook

And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as looking out for himself and watching his tongue and not saying the wrong thing, the thing that might get him killed. About the dignity of the lost, about losing, and how it cleansed the soul to accept defeat, and about letting go, avoiding the trap of holding on too tightly to what you wanted, and about abandonment in general, and in particular fatherlesness, the lessness of fathers, the lessness of the fatherless, and the best defenses of those who are less against those who are more: inwardness, forethought, cunning, humility and good peripheral vision. The many lessons of lessness. The lessening from which growing could begin.

~ Salman Rushdie

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?

~ R.c. Sproul Jr.

Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.

~ Anthony Liccione

Any parents are as ordinary human beings as others, making them angels or even more is up to their next generation.

~ Sandeep Sahajpal

Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path — and that person could even be you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

~ Jennifer Chiaverini

We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

~ Richard Puz

What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

~ Patrick Ness

If I ever stop challenging myself, then I am getting lazy and comfortable and I am no longer growing. I hope to use life's challenges as stepping stones to ever greater things.

~ Roz Savage

When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. People get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them, he said. At age forty-five, Jobs was now about to get out of his groove.

~ Walter Isaacson

When you stop growing you start dying.

~ William S. Burroughs

They run, they touch, they learn, they play, They listen, they work hard at growing all day.

~ Christina Engela

When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of twenty—the world of the elderly—thrown up in such black outline upon what we are; upon the reality; the moors and Byron; the sea and the lighthouse; the sheep’s jaw with the yellow teeth in it; upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable—“I am what I am, and intend to be it,” for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself. The Plumers will try to prevent him from making it. Wells and Shaw and the serious sixpenny weeklies will sit on its head.

~ Virginia Woolf

She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of obscurity.

~ C.e. O'grady

...tears and rain are the same thing, they're meant to wash you clean and make you grow. If you don't let them out, you'll drown inside.

~ Celeste De Blasis

Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Or maybe they weren’t changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.

~ Eilis O'neal

Of course, we all go through our own experiences. If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

~ Sakyong Mipham

Why stay we on earth except to grow?

~ Robert Browning

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

~ Madonna Ciccone

Growing up, I really liked 'Star Wars.' Han Solo would've been really cool to meet. But my stuff was real low-brow. I was watching 'Bugs Bunny.'

~ Chris Evans

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

~ Jason Bateman

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

~ Scott Bakula

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

~ Nikola Tesla

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

~ Ed Rendell

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

~ Winona Ryder

I was a handful growing up.

~ Olivia Wilde

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

~ Linda Hunt

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

~ Shinichi Suzuki