Quotes about Growth
The question is not, are we sorry? The question is, what lesson have we learned? The question is what are we going to do now that we are sorry?
— JM Coetzee
a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.
— JM Coetzee
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.
— Jack Kerouac
The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.
— Jack Kerouac
Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.
— Jack Kerouac
I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest of my life to do it
— Jack Kerouac
I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest of my life to do it
— Jack Kerouac
She looked exactly like the little girl she had been.
— Jack Kerouac
I try to get through a book every two weeks.
— Andre Iguodala
I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.
— Andy Andrews
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
— Henry A. Wallace
Sunscreen, in the world of beauty, is the ultimate in adulting.
— Emily Weiss