“As we run, we become.”
“We had stepped into the river that takes you forward.”
“I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.”
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
“Seek connection not attention. It last longer.”
“I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.”
“Don t give up on your goal for the little bit of comfort. Grow. Jump. Hustle.”
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
“Every flower blooms at a different pace.”
“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”
“Life is now in session. Are you present?”
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
“Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.”
“My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.”
“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”