GROWTH QUOTES

quotations about growth

Optimism works in conjunction with your life energy, strengthening your roots and keeping you grounded, stimulating the growth of new shoots and the development of new branches that form your life, energizing the creation that is you.

DANA LIGHTMAN

Power Optimism

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Growing up doesn't happen automatically when we become parents. It takes a lifetime. No matter how long we live, we'll always need to grow. And we will never reach perfect maturity this side of heaven.

ETHEL L. HERR

Growing Up is a Family Affair


Being taught to avoid growing up doesn't help us launch into adulthood. At best, it leaves us hanging on the end of the diving board--stuck in the childishness and irresponsibility of adolescence. At worst, it leaves us floundering in the deep end of the pool--unprepared for the exciting challenges of life.

ALEX HARRIS & BRETT HARRIS

Do Hard Things


You can't force a thing to grow. You can't interfere with it. It's all hidden. It's all unseen. You just gotta wait til it pops up out of the ground. Tiny little shoot. Tiny little white shoot. All hairy and fragile. Strong enough. Strong enough to break the earth even. It's a miracle.

SAM SHEPARD

Buried Child

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To grow and know what one is growing towards--that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.

JAMES BAILLIE

attributed, Forbes, 1954


Growing up is like narrowing imagined meanings into settled references, and where we cannot do that, we tend to dismiss the meanings themselves.

RANDALL E. AUXIER

"I'm Melting! Melting!", The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy


Growing up isn't easy for anyone. Life is not perfect. That being said, the could of/should of is all in the past. Truth be known, if we could go back and repeat the past, we would probably screw it up in some other way.

LINDA K. REED

Winter of 1950


Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

NORMAN MAILER

Western Review, winter 1959

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Growth is the only evidence of life.

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Apologia pro Vita Sua


Life is growth and motion; a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

BROOKS ATKINSON

Once Around the Sun


Growing older is mandatory; growing up is optional.

ANONYMOUS

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Failure makes you grow up if you learn how to deal with it, and after all, nobody can be a little kid forever. Sometimes though, when the failures become big enough, growing up doesn't work. Sometimes growing up is just a way to disappear.

AMANDA HARRIS

Rage


As far as I can see, growing up doesn't make you anything but drab.

STEPHEN GREENLEAF

Book Case


The toughest kind of acceptance is when we have to accept that there are certain things in life which can't be ours--no matter how hard we try. It's called growing up.... It's difficult--very, very difficult, but inevitable nevertheless. Worse, growing up doesn't only happen as we turn eighteen. Growing up happens as our soul keeps swallowing these depressing acceptances little by little, one at a time. For no acceptance can happen overnight. It's a bit-by-bit process.

NOVONEEL CHAKRABORTY

Forget Me Not, Stranger


Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

NORMAN MAILER

attributed, Ten Things Every Writer Needs to Know

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Growing up doesn't mean dying to your joy. Joy is your eternal link to your aliveness. If you lose your sense of joy your life force is diminishing with every breath you take. Growing up is a natural process of learning how to manage your energy, in ever increasing ways, so your mind can make conscious choices that are congruent with your heart and soul. This relationship sustains your life and youthful vitality by maintaining a direct relationship with your joy.

KAY SNOW-DAVIS

Wheel of Life Cycles


We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

ANAÏS NIN

The Diary of Anais Nin

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Growing up isn't easy. You know, once you grow up, it's work, work, work.

W. Z. NELSON

Hurricane Summer


Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

EDWARD ABBEY

The Journey Home

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

KENNETH BOULDING

attributed, Energy reorganization act of 1973: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, first session, on H.R. 11510