#growing

Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. ↗

— M.J. Croan

#growing-up #maturity #maturity

They grew; they did not talk about growing. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #growing #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

What must I do now?” Mrs. Muller considered her silently for a while. “You are still a child. You must go where you are told and do as you are told. But it won’t always be so. Soon you will be in charge of yourself. Until that time: Be aware. Listen. Look. Touch. Smell. And remember. But for now, you must go home. ↗

— Masha du Toit

#children #do-as-you-re-told #growing-up #home

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#forgiveness #growing-up #life-lessons #age

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#belonging #changing #growing #inspirational #inspirational-love

Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#encouragement #faith #finding-joy #growing-up #hard-times

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#grow up #growing #mean #stop #tell

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?' ↗

— Chuck Pagano

#assistants #being #coach #dad #ever

Plans never go as planned, ever; that’s just how life is. People spend way too much time dreaming about a future they should be having more nightmares warning them against. But that doesn't mean you should let those bad dreams scare you away; all those nightmares want is respect. If you give them that, they’ll give you the space you need. Unless, of course, they’re the type of nightmares that have an appetite, then you’re fucked. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#death #dreams #fear #future #growing-up

I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn. Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#growing #imagination #inspiration #life #poetry