Growing Quotes
What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.
Without you there would be no me. I am everything reflected in your eyes. I am everything approved by your smile. I am everything born of your guidance. I am me only because of you.
She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had.
We can all share with Nora and then she will have breakfast too!
It’s Ms. Hilda’s magic drawer! That’s where Ms. Hilda finds everything we need. Crayons, papers, glitters, candies, everything!
I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.
Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.
How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of cutting people away?
The first sound a child hears is very important. It determines character. A Muslim child always hears the Azan first. Words in praise of God. Words to live by.
Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.
And why is it that so many years later it is so easy to distinguish the bullies from their prey? Adult bodies surrounding the children of long ago. The years have changed nothing.
children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people
Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.
How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.
You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.
I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.
We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.
Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.
The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.
Growing up is, at heart, the process of learning to take responsibility for whatever happens in your life. To choose growth is to embrace a love that heals.
It is us who change. We grow stronger, and the problems appear less imposing.
We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.
Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.
This the kind of world, if you don’t die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.
Check yourself often and correct your faults. Quit blaming others. Take responsibility for your own life. That's the only way you can grow!
Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.
Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.
The monsters were never under our bed, but in the forest our future.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Growing up, I loved the tale of Peter Rabbit and also books on Pippi Longstocking. Pippi was a girl who had so much fun and was very daring. My sons loved all the Dr. Seuss books
You ask yourself when you’ll learn, and the answer is always, “Tomorrow.
Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to change the rules and I’ve had to start all over again.
He who hasn't experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time--he is a child.
I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.
The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations.
