Quotes About Development

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

My diary entries allow me to keep track of all the things I would like to change about my life.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.

Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.

The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.

Everyone's a different person when they're younger. You evolve as a human being with knowledge and attitude and challenges and obstacles in life.

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.