Grown Up Yet?

Growth and comfort do not coexist. - Ginny Rometty

Growth is the only evidence of life. - John Henry Newman

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. - John C Maxwell

Aging wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - Douglas MacArthur

Growing old is something you do if you're lucky. - Groucho Marx

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait. - Leo Rosten

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot

Growth is the process of responding positively to change. - Paul Harvey

To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter. - Euripides

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. - Daniel F E Auber

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey

I'm aging like fine wine. I'm getting complex and fruity. - Unknown

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. - Albert Laighton

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun. - Nina Dobrev

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey S Firestone

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. - Judith Regan

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck. - Venus Williams

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. - Henry Miller

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. - Logan P Smith

The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. - Jason Love

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. - Virginia Satir

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. - Benjamin Franklin

The attention economy is not growing, which means we have to grab the attention that someone else has today. - Brent Leary

I'm grateful that I never was that senior athlete who realized she'd done nothing but train all her life. - Clara Hughes

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. - Edward de Bono

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair. - Jarod Kintz

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. - William Butler Yeats

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. - Max Lerner

You know your kids are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. - P.J. O'Rourke

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. - Herbert Otto

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. - Salvador Dali

Giving up at something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up. - Unknown

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. - Viktor Frankl

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. - Sarah O Jewett