Quotes About Development

Jesus is big on people evolving. And all organisms have an innate tendency to evolve toward improvement. I seem to be the outlier.

The development of relationship creates plot.

Play is also part of developing trust. Play opens the heart and gives delight and focus, like an abacus did when we were young.

Writing a first draft is very much like watching a Polaroid develop. You can't—and, in fact, you're not supposed to—know exactly what the picture is going to look like until it has finished developing.

Each egg hatched a different way, but a crack at the right time speeded things up.

The mind that will not admit it has something more to learn tomorrow is in danger of stagnating.

The AI told her not long ago that her Why? period might have been the shortest on record - because Mum and Dad answered every Why? in detail AND made sure she understood, so she wouldn't ask that particular Why? again. After a month Why? wasn't fun anymore, and she went on to other things.

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality. I promise not to pry into your loneliness, never to tear at the bud with frightened fingers to make sure there is a flower inside. I believe in the flower.

Every step, even a tentative one, counts.

All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms. But there is no single fixed form to express such a changing relationship.

And you must know we do not really change over time; we are as flowers unfolding, we merely become more nearly ourselves.

Y tienes que saber que no cambiamos con el paso del tiempo; somos como flores que se abren; simplemente nos convertimos más y más en nosotros mismos.

There are mutations, developments that the world includes but never embraces, things that have to be repudiated and rejected.

none of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are.

And I saw that if I were to maximize every experience available to me, I must exert my own powers over my learning.

You could say I strengthened and shaped Goblin, unwittingly creating the monster that he is now.

Anne Rivers Siddons

What's the point of living if you don't try to do things better?

Sometimes people live first one life and then another life," her grandmother said. "First a family life and then later a whole other kind of life. That's what I'm doing.

So maybe parenthood was meant to be educational, Robin thought—a lesson for the parents on totally other styles of being.

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See this? And this? See me somersault? See me pull my wagon?" His smallness colored every act; he was conscious of a desperate need to learn to manage, to take charge of his surroundings. Waking

Necessity is the mother of invention