Quotes About Development

What was the point of falling in love if you stayed exactly as you were?

There is only one way to learn It's through action.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

It's in making decisions that we learn to decide.

It would be an extremely naive attitude to wait for the ruling classes to develop a form of education that would provide the dominated classes to understand social injustices in a critical way.

what can we do now in order to be able to do tomorrow what we are unable to do today?

Es por esto que [la educación liberadora] reconoce [a las personas] como seres que están siendo, como seres inacabados, inconclusos en y con una realidad que siendo historia es también tan inacabada como ellos. [...] De [la inconclusión de las personas y la conciencia que de ella tienen] que sea la educación un quehacer permanente. Permanente en razón de la inconclusión de los seres humanos y del devenir de la realidad.

Ninguém nasce feito. Vamos nos fazendo aos poucos na prática social de que tornamos parte

It is essential not to confuse modernization with development.

On the other hand, you know that it's possible to do more. You cannot accept being immobilized because you think that you've finished. You experience the very nature of being a human being-that is, unfinished, constantly in search.

eu gosto de ser humano, porque, inacabado, eu sei que sou um estafador, mas, ciente do incompleto, eu sei que posso ir mais longe.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy ending on the last page, right? If the princess had everything from the beginning, there wouldn't be a story. Anyone who is imperfect or incomplete can become the main character in the story.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

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

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

I change by not changing at all.

small steps.

As Louis Cozolino Ph. D., observes, a consistent theme of adult psychotherapy clients is that they had parents who were not curious about who they were but, instead, told them who they should be. What Cozolino explains, is that the child creates a "persona" for her parents but doesn't learn to know herself. What happens is that "the authentic self"--the part of us open to feelings, experinces, and intimicy--remains underdeveloped.

The mother's relationship to her daughter not only formed the earliest, if not primary, foundation for all the daughter formulates her sense of self, but is the basic template for her understanding of how relationships work in the world.

The mother's relationship to her daughter not only forms the earliest, if not primary, foundation for how the daughter formulates her sense of self, but is the basic template for her understanding of how relationships work in the world.

Young people are not tabulae rasae. They have a sense of right and wrong. But if they're repeatedly exposed to certain themes, they are more likely to pick them up, to internalize them and have them become part of their sexual scripts.

Everything is practice.