Quotes About Development

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later...Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

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We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

I found the city built of brick and left it built of marble,' this

Very few towns or cities are founded at a stroke, by a single individual. They are usually the product of gradual changes in population, in patterns of settlement, social organisation and sense of identity. Most 'foundations' are retrospective constructions, projecting back into the distant past a microcosm, or imagined primitive version, of the later city.

In reality, the whole process must have been more gradual than that story suggests, and messier. The 'Republic' was born slowly, over a period of decades, if not centuries. It was reinvented many times over.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.

Love dies only when growth stops.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

The seed of the gift may come, but a seedling that isn't nourished dies quickly.