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Growth Quotes
"Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm."
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"I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her."
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"I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own."
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"You're allowed to be sad and angry. You're not allowed to give up."
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"You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you'll have to learn to deal with failure."
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"Throw out old clothes and shoes, and train your brain to get rid of old thoughts and ideas."
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"The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition."
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"Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy."
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"In reality, the world is not an arena of comfort but comfort that works! Comfort that makes impact! Yes, comfort that changes lives and leaves a distinctive footprint! Truly, comfort that does not work is only discomfort at work in silence. So many people shall dwell in comfort without working with it only to meet discomfort one day and remember comfort!"
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"If at first you don't succeed, you're doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach."
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"Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop."
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"Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library."
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"Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home."
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"But even the Gallagher Academy hadn't figured out a way to help us protect our hearts."
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"There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man."
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"The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do."
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"At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sense that 'Wow, I can draw' or in my case 'Wow, I can read'... You feel you have what's called a talent, but as you become an adult, if you hope to make things, you have to give up the preoccupation with talent otherwise you'll spend your life painting beautiful pictures of fruit bowls that look like fruit bowls."
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"Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else."
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"If you wish to give chance on others' abilities and capabilities then give them respected time to grow and express themselves.Share a path for everyone to grow and glow!"
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"The difference between a professional victim and an empowered person is NOT what has happened to them, but the way in which they REACT to what has happened to them."
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"Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater."
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"Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal."
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"No one is without fault. We can only aim to improve."
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"We don't always get what we want but often something better happens and we become the person we always wanted to be."
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"She's over the top rebellious,but damn her heart overflowing with insane love.She shakes thing up.Doesn't play by rules and certainly fitsin nobody's pretty perfect box."
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"Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues."
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"He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted."
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"Don't take your happiness for granted. Be proactive about maintaining and sustaining it in your life."
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"Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene - colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization."
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"Hello, this is I, and these are my arms and legs, which are useful, and this inconvenient hump is my sorrow, which is less than useful, but I've learned how to hump it around, so pay it no mind."
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"Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe."
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"She had tried to imagine him as a young Gladiator in the arena. Back then he must have been as dangerous as a lean, half - starved alley cat. Now, the alley cat had long since vanished. What stood in his stead was a scarred and even more deadly lion who carried the weight of having lived for many years in his prime."
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"Because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevated that we ourselves shall then regard as trifling those objects and pursuits we now so fondly cherish, and that, though our companions will no longer join us in those childish pastimes, they will drink with us at other fountains of delight, and mingle their souls with ours in higher aims and nobler occupations beyond our present comprehension, but not less deeply relished or less truly good for that, while yet both we and they remain essentially the same individuals as before."
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"You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be."
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"Frustration often steers you to the right path."
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"Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green changed. Then the vine threads came, then the buds. By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out, the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy."
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"We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don't want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that."
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"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"
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"It is us who change. We grow stronger, and the problems appear less imposing."
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"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."
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"I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school."
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