5,371 Quotes About Growth

I think that one of the greatest achievements in becoming an adult is to carefully cultivate the child within us so that the adult that we are becoming is never given enough room to destroy us.

I’m not so sure that the adult within me teaches the child within me. Rather, I think that the child does most of the educating.

One’s world shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s sensual growth.

Growing up takes time and effort.

To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.

Changing yourself changes everything.

The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain.

A book already dies in your hand when you’ve decided what to read next. A page must make us take a wrong turn, a book a new path, an author a new friend, a chapter a shortage of breath, and a lesson a different life.