"I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!"

Growth, Innocence, Change, Time, Loss

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"I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!"

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"The cost of growth is always a small act of violence."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"You can't BREED at a place where you can't BREATHE. Therefore, FIX yourself where you FIT."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Breathing, Fit, Comfort

"You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by the power put in you!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Learning, Action, Laurels, Empowerment

"Accept corrections and you'll improve and increase."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Correction, Improvement, Learning

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Growth, Difficulty, Progress, Learning, Effort

"I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"He who doesn't want to face his challenges shall always face challenges!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Challenges, Life, Strength, Choices

"Everybody want to experience some form of pleasure in whatever they are doing and one of the sure ways of doing that is by seeing increase in your endeavors or results."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Growth, Pleasure, Success, Endeavors

"Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it's cage, it will be hard to capture it again!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost."

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"Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy."

Humor

"No person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people."

Creativity

"Nothing remained but loneliness and grief."

Emotion

"I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them."

Growth

"Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage."

Family

"And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace."

Family

"It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters love their duty and do it so well, or you would perish off the face of the earth,' said Mrs. Jo solemnly."

Family

"Housekeeping ain't no joke."

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