#grow

Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#youth #dreams

She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever. Where was it now--the glory and the dream? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#growing-up #life #dreams

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #associations #case #complexity #delicacy

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#become #change #growing-up #independent #into-the-wild

Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world. ↗

— James P. Krehbiel

#facing-problems #growth #motivation #stepping-out-of-the-bubble #change

I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn. ↗

— Barbara Hall

#change

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them. ↗

— M. Ageyev

#change #city-planning #growth #change

Growing up changes more than playground games and body shapes. ↗

— Emma Cameron

#changes #growing-up #playground-games #change

If you aren't diligently working towards changing something that bothers you, you rescind your right to complain about it. ↗