Quotes about Growing

For each of us, ignorance is a type of dust that accumulates more and more until it is wiped away.

You can't put people in boxes, and you can't fit life into compartments.

One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.

One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.

There are two kinds of people, the ones that blend in, and those who do not seek to be accepted into an existing group only if they change who they are. These last are the people who wish to remain themselves. Both of these people fear. The first one will do all sorts of stupid things that they will regret in the future, if it were only to be accepted. And the other kind will choose not to do this stuff and show the world who they are. They to will do things that is regretted in the future. Because both will encounter a kind of sinister people, that will take advantage of the inexperience and their quest for social contact. In the end, it doesn't matter what kind of person you are to be accepted in society. Nor will it matter how much people will like you. What matters is in how well you will recognize the people that just want to take advantage, and those that don't.

The appetite grows by eating.

RADIX MALORUM EST CUPIDITAS
the root of all evil is desire

Where you are today is only a reflection of where you have been in your life,  but not indicative of  where you are going.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished. " What I believe is alive...and open to growth..  -Madeleine L'Engle

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

"That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year."

We evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged into.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.