#grow

The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she had been all summer. She had taken care of them all, sometimes well, sometimes badly. And they had covered the distances. For most of the summer, they had been unattached. Nobody knew who they were or what they were doing. It didn't matter what they did, as long as they all stayed together. Dicey remembered that feeling, of having things pretty much her own way. And she remembered the feelings of danger. It was a little bit like being a wild animal, she thought to herself. Dicey missed that wildness. She knew she would never have it again. And she missed the sense of Dicey Tillerman against the whole world and doing all right. ↗

— Cynthia Voigt

#growing-up #introspective #poignant #change

Your mother didn't raise you to be a child forever. ↗

— Tadahiko Nagao

#life

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#deeper #did #down #grown #had

You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated. ↗

— Jenny B. Jones

#growing-up #teenager #teenagers

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#self-awareness #thriving #wisdom #self-growth

Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night. ↗

— François Fénelon

#self-knowledge #sin #spiritual-growth #self-growth

Can you believe our Ash is getting laid? Our baby is growing up. I'm so proud! ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#growing-up

Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#growth #purpose #self-care #success #thriving

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#find #growth #little #lucky #mad

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#biggest #city #created #dickens #expanded