“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
"If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."
- John Steinbeck
Love
"What good is the warm of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
- John Steinbeck
Balance
"What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?"
- John Steinbeck
Balance
"If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones."
- John Steinbeck
Compassion
"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."
- John Steinbeck
Compassion
"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
- Max DePree
Growth
"How marvelous is the generation with which you deal. We have never had a generation its equal in all of the history of the Church. They are better educated. They are more familiar with the scriptures. I believe they pray with a greater measure of faith, have a greater desire to do the will of the Lord, are more active in the Church, go into the world as better prepared missionaries, and live to become better parents."
- President Gordon B. Hinckley
Growth
"Allow yourself the opportunity to get uncomfortable."
- Alex Toussaint
Growth
"All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone."
- Tony Robbins
Growth
"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
- Mary Tyler Moore
Growth