Growing Quotes

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.

This flawless night sky adorned with crystal pendant stars is nothing more than a fragile glass of potential - shattered only to those who dare to break through it.

The best thing I’ve learned, and still believe, is that I don’t have to be perfect to start, I have to start... so I can begin learning and growing.

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

it's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that.

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it’s more important to learn to work with what you’ve got, under the circumstances you’ve been given, than wishing for different ones.

The earlier you admit to your mistakes, the more time you would have to learn and grow from them.

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

Never stop learning. Never stop growing.

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite.

Never give up on learning unless you are tired of growing and willing to settle for less.

Don't let your pride get in your way of surrounding yourself with people who are smarter than you. Life is a continuous journey of learning and growing.

Moving on should be a required high school classbecause Lynchburg is determined to make me forget.

It could have been so beautiful.The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever againand it could have been so beautiful, the way I actually did.

If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

No one is born a sprinter. We all learn to push ourselves up from the floor and then balance before taking that first, wobbly step. It is an individual choice where to go from there.

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you, ” and I was now living that mantra.

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, in an atmosphere of trust.

If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent.

Forgive, Adapt and Evolve, because holding on stagnates your opportunity of being better.

Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?

The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly.

I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old.

Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.

I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.

If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

Keep moving forward! You don't need permission from anyone in order to move on your own father's land! Go ahead and take the lead!

I am a M.A.G.I.C. child.. Motivated And Growing In Christ! …I hope you too are a M.A.G.I.C. dreamer!

There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.

Love is eternal, and growing with each breath, every kind thought, word and deed.

Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.

And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever.

Black hawk down.Black eagle up.

Life is a progression of becoming who we are.

It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.ü

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.

Plants can be affected by stray voltage and they may show stunted growth, deformed growth, or go dormant. In extreme cases they may die.

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.

Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an au