#grow

His sixth year, it seemed to him, had lasted a remarkably long time and there were points at which he frankly wondered whether he would ever turn seven. But now it was the night before his birthday, and barring some cosmic disaster, the advent of some unexpected black hole into which the earth might be sucked, with the attendant reversal or suspension of time, in very few hours he would be waking up to a world in which he was numbered among the seven-year-olds. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#life

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted. ↗

— Roman Payne

#aging #growing-old #life #payne #time

Du kannst nicht viel von deiner Mutter lernen. Aber das kannst du von deiner Mutter lernen. Erstens, man kann über alles reden. Und zweitens, was die Leute denken, ist scheißegal. ↗

— Wolfgang Herrndorf

#life #mothers #tschick #life

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. ↗

— Eric Fromm

#life #love #life

It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friendship #growth #letting-go #letting-go-of-negative-people #loving-yourself

Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#evolution #finale #friendships #growth #journey-of-life

I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn’t come easy for, someone like me. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#love #sarah-dessen #someone-like-you #young-adult #love

It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#growing-up #moving-on #paint #painting #purple

You know, through pain, you learn a lot about yourself--things you thought you never knew you wanted to learn. And it's kind of like those animals that regrow a part of their body--like a starfish. You might not feel it. You might not even want to grow, but you will. You'll grow that part that broke off, and that growing, that blooming--cannot happen without the pain. ↗

— Kelle Hampton

#growth-process #life-changes #painful-memories #beauty

The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man. ↗

— Michael Gurian

#manhood #self-worth #life