Quotes About Development

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

There's precious little reform in the human race.

When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. I was your teacher.

perhaps real beauty was something unrecognized by the conscious self, a work that was always in progress, a thing of being rather than seeing.

You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.

He is too young to have learned to hate himself yet, but that seed is already there; given time, it will grow, and bear bitter fruit.

Good fiction always begins with story and progresses to theme; it almost never begins with theme and progresses to story.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just...come out the other side.

Has it ever occurred to you, he said abruptly, that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming? I shook my head. Tell you what I think, he said, I think that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

Perhaps kids really did come into the world trailing clouds of glory, as Wordsworth had so confidently proclaimed, but they also shit in their pants until they learned better.

As the twig is bent the bough is shaped, that was another old saying, and once a pretentious asshole, always a pretentious asshole.

writing couldn't really be taught, only learned.

As the twig is bent, so the bough is shaped.

if you reach the age of twenty-five or thirty without knowing how to spell (TOTALLY, not TODILLY), or capitalize in the proper places (White House, not white-house), or write a sentence containing both a noun AND a verb, you're probably never going to know.

Falling doesn't mean Trailing but Straining

Age doesn't mean Maturity but Senescence

You create yourself by becoming something new each day

Information gives reformation and reformation brings transformation.

If you want things to change, then you have to change them.

Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn how to untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires.

You know you are changing when you are moving towards something bigger than yourself. Your Life!

Think bigger It makes a profit

Fail to learn, not the other way around

We are growing day by day as we are continuously striving for excellence in life.