Quotes About Development

To try to be better is to be better.

Generosity says a great deal about a person's emotional and spiritual development. When it's hard to give, or it feels like ripping away a part of the self, we are still anchored in our attachments or stories we've created about scarcity. If this applies to you, make friends with the part of you that feels resentful or finds it difficult to give.

The formation of habits is education, and education is the formation of habits.

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life--is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses...

The more of a person we succeed in making a child, the better will he both fulfil his own life and serve society.

the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

Most readily measure the inches and feet of life's ups and downs, but it is only the foot forward that really counts.

Skill Pill - Any practice or substance that shortens the time required to master a skill or subject.

Not underdeveloped, as they call us, because we are not underdeveloped. We are simply badly developed, badly developed because imperialism long ago took over our raw materials and set out to exploit them according to its own imperial needs.

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...

La conscience morale de l'humanité progresse, lentement mais sûrement...

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

Last century's magic is this year's science.

Three years passed. And then there was a sticker.

When do my stories get to change?

Plot is the series of events that keep your characters together until issues are resolved at the end of the book.

The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people's diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.

This is how you get unstuck. You reach.

Transformation isn't a butterfly. It's the thing before you get to be a pretty bug flying away. It's huddling in the dark cocoon and then pushing your way out. It's the messy work of making sense of your fortunes and misfortunes, desires and doubts, hang-ups and sorrows, actions and accidents, mistakes and successes, so you can go on and become the person you must next become.

Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding.

The thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.