Growing Quotes

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.

Life is like this roller coaster you can’t wait to be tall enough and old enough to get on. But when you get on it you realize you’re afraid of roller coasters.

You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.

I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.

When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

All levels of ascension involve letting go of things that hold you back.

There was always so much I didnt know, but not knowing was part of it all.

Part of me is afraid that everyone will laugh, that I’m a caricature of myself.

It didn't matter what anyone else saw in me. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing myself.

When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.

I'm going to go throw up now, because ive turned into my dad. If vomiting doesn't work, I'll see if I can get an exorcism.

Love is growing up.

Jocelyn did not want to always remain the same. Where was the adventure in that?

I realized if I didn’t just go, I’d never go. Going was the key. It didn’t matter where I was headed just as long as I was headed somewhere. ~ Ben Davis

Their love was thus seeded in the rich soil of mutual understanding.

Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

Release-For yearsthey told you tosit.Stay.Now they open the doorand tell you toget up.Leave.Where do you gowith no oneto show youthe way?

I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.

I never thought a little time and space would turn into miles and worlds apart

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.

We live to work.Man was made to move.Without work we shall grow old quickly.

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

Aging is something! It always makes you remember yesterday!

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.

No matter what happens i choose to value the memories of the good times, grow from the lessons of the bad times because i don't regret a single moment of it, every detail made me who i am.

Dad?""What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us."What should I be when I grow up?"The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest, " I finally say.

I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

All seek perfection from our parents … Just wait till your parents start depending on you, that is when your own perfection, or lack thereof, will be apparent.

Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do.

Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.

You don't have to be better than everyone in order to grow and achieve success, but you must continuously strive to become better than the person you were yesterday.

Doubt is something we all feel, but some people allow theirs to grow stronger than their confidence and faith.

As long as you are alive and in your right senses, there are no excuses not to continuously learn and grow.

We all go through some tough times, but unfortunately, some of us let theirs define the rest of their lives instead of growing from them.

Stop regretting and let your mistakes and failures be your greatest teachers in life. Wisdom can only come from living and learning.

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.

I tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls...

I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really talking about.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.

The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.

God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups.

That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.