Quotes tagged as "growing-pains" Showing 1-30 of 30
"If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go." ― Germany Kent
"The fact Locke didn't die instantly may be taken as proof that a human male can survive having every last warm drop of blood within his body rush instantly to the vicinity of his cheeks." ― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves
"For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness" or "uniqueness" as an individual. In the world there are lots of social groups people can fit into, and I've spent time roaming in and out of a few and being kicked out of many. Now I stand on the outside and look in. Wondering where is my place. Coming to a conclusion, I have no place." ― Laura Hanna
"Buttercup dried her tears and began to smile. She took a deep breath, heaved a sigh. It was all part of growing up. You got these little quick passions, you blinked, and they were gone. You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next day the sun came up and it was over. Chalk it up to experience, old girl, and get on with the morning." ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
"you have outgrown this skin. stop trying to hold it in. stop trying to hold it together.
let yourself break." ― AVA., you are safe here.
"Boys annoyed her. Girls annoyed her. She should have been a cat." ― Katie Neipris
"Nobody ever feels they're doing well with teenagers, he said. I think that's kind of the point of them." ― Jojo Moyes, After You
"A main reason for our experience of pain is because of our eagerness to bring people we love or care about into our own growth spurts and into our own leaps forward that they are simply not ready to morph into. You could be a tree sprouting new branches left and right or a planetary wonder hurtling space rocks igniting the skies in glowing streaks, then the other person or people are plantlings still forming roots, or, sunbeams that want to stay on bedroom walls. See, that hurts. It hurts to grow alone, it hurts to realise that someone else won't be coming with you." ― C. JoyBell C.
"I fall too easily; it gives me the chance to rise more quickly. When I feel pains in my muscles, it's only a sign that they are growing." ― Ufuoma Apoki
"I obviously don't know the whole story here, but good friendships are durable. They're meant to survive the gaps and the growing pains." ― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'
"Middle school is like this endless horror show. Well, maybe not endless, because it ended, but it really burns into your psyche. I don't care who you are." ― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
"You never do fully recover "You." You will never have another relationship exactly like the one we had. You will become more for the loss of me and you will move forward into a New You. The You I helped you to become. All you can do now is to begin to create the beautiful New You that has been born from your love and from your loss." ― Kate McGahan, Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Guide to Pet Loss and Grief
"After months of separation her friends still catalyzed her thoughts and challenged her opinions and wrangled with her emotions, and she was relieved to see that they still slid into the familiar patterns, the comfortable ruts of long-established personalities. It was nice but it also worried her. Could there be room for growth? How could you change around the people that knew you best, who knew you backwards and forwards and knew you so well that they defined themselves by you and you by them? How could you possibly evolve, like really evolve and become a whole person all on your own, when your own makeup was inextricably intertwined with someone else's perception of themselves?" ― Katie Neipris, The Inconvenient Process of Falling
"The phrase 'Boys will be boys,' reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome." ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
"I always used to think that I'd like to stay 17 or 18 if I could. But not any more. I'm not a teenager any more. I've got a sense of responsibility now. I'm not the same person I was when we used to hang out together. I'm 20 now. And I have to pay the price to go on living." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I had so much to learn back then. I thought that being a man meant putting yourself first and bullying others into following you, no matter what the cost. Now I understand that being a man means taking responsibility, and taking charge as a leader, so that others will follow you of their own volition. --Mars from The Little Light" ― Dipa Sanatani, The Little Light
"I don't know how to be any version of me, much less a new and improved me." ― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within
"Long ago, I would've laughed at the idea of not killing someone as my first option, but here I am.
It's strange, the ease of falling so far from who I once was, but does it not take falling to learn how to stand?" ― H.S. Crow
"Kids these days," Dragos said quietly. "They grow up so fast." "Supersonic fast," Pia said just as quietly." ― Thea Harrison, Liam Takes Manhattan
"He knows if questions aren't answered over time, then he has to bury and forget them. It's his family's way. Maybe that's okay this time because Jack has always gotten by. Being the eldest son, he's forced to lead by example from his parents. Luckily for James and Sandy, Jack was born a natural leader." ― Michael Dault, The Sons of Summer
"Times of suffering will come, use them To grow into a better version of yourself. Use the dirt to grow flowers. Let the storm water them. Watch them grow in the sunshine." ― Eric Overby, Legacy
"I knew that girls made fun of each other, but talking about someone's body like that seemed so wrong. You can't choose your body! I was suddenly aware that I was under-performing in ways I didn't even know existed. From then on I always showered in my swimsuit, changed clothes in the outhouse (which defeated the purpose of showering), and worst of all, I developed the habit of swimming in a t-shirt." ― Liz Prince, Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir
"There are many ways by which God can make us feel lonely and lead us to a consciousness of ourselves. With me it was in this way: it was like a bad dream, in which I saw myself ostracized, foul and clammy, creeping restlessly and painfully over broken beer glasses, down an abominably unclean road. There are such dreams, when you imagine you have set out to find a beautiful princess, but you stick in stinking back streets full of rubbish and dirty puddles. So it was with me. In this scarcely refined way I was destined to become lonely and to put between myself and my childhood a locked door of Eden over against which stood merciless sentinels on guard in beaming rays of light. It was a beginning, an awakening of that homesickness, that longing to return to my true self." ― Herman Hesse, Demian / La leyenda del rey indio
"... If it doesn't make you grow or blossom, let it go" ― L.J. Shen
"He's taller than his shadow now; at odd minutes he scrapes the fading sky with the round, upturned bowl of skull that holds his matter in. No way to catch those minutes, no way to stable the seconds. He is simply growing, but not simply. There's nothing simple about the way he's aching and expanding." ― Laurie Perez, Virga in Death Valley
"I pay tribute to that little girl who is constantly told by society that she is not beautiful. For the older woman who hides behind her mask and colors her gray hair. And to the senior woman who feels that her wrinkles are a negative reminder of growing older.
Know that you are all beautiful, just the way you are. Let the radiance you were born with shine through." ― Alyscia Cunningham
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