Top 50 I Have Outgrown Quotes
#1. The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.
Annie Fellows Johnston
#2. If you're unwilling to leave someplace you've outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don't stand still, leap forward.
Ronda Rousey
#3. I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by the autumn and each year I hadn't
Brigid Brophy
#4. The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
Christopher Morley
#5. When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.
Keke Palmer
#6. Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the only way to behave; then he suddenly discovers that, even for a prince, there are such things as music, literature, not to speak of standing for the post of deputy.
Marcel Proust
#7. Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.
Wayne Dyer
#9. I go through memory after memory, looking for reassurance that nothing has changed, but it's like flipping through a book of stories I've outgrown. Everything has changed.
Paula Stokes
#10. I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown ...
Charles Dickens
#12. To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we've used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown.
Jane Avrich
#13. Aren't we constantly discovering how mistaken some of our cherished beliefs were? That is what progress is. We learn continually to cast aside outgrown notions and adopt wiser and better ones.
Sara Ware Bassett
#15. Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.
Arthur Dove
#16. The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.
Henry Adams
#17. By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
George Orwell
#18. Now I wonder if grief isn't something like a shell. You wear it for a long time and then one day you realize you've outgrown it. So you put it down. It doesn't mean that I want to let go of the memories of you or the love I have for you. But it does mean that I want to let go of the sadness.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#19. there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown. When
Elizabeth Berg
#20. The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.
Joseph Campbell
#21. I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.
Ian McEwan
#22. you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together.
let yourself break.
AVA.
#23. I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
Roger Zelazny
#24. In seventh grade I gradually became aware that that quickness of feeling was something I was supposed to have outgrown. I was rather guileless, I think, or at least I was when it came to the people I cared about.
Kevin Brockmeier
#25. This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you're clinging to and start over, whether because you've outgrown it or because it's not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place.
Kelly Cutrone
#26. George," said Fred, "I think we've outgrown full-time education."
"Yeah, I've been feeling that way myself," said George lightly.
J.K. Rowling
#27. Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.
Josh Lanyon
#28. There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times.
Noel Perrin
#29. I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.
Gretchen Rubin
#30. When he spoke, his words came with a confusion which was delightful to hear because one felt that it indicated not so much a defect in his speech as a quality of his soul, as it were a survival from the age of innocence which he had never wholly outgrown.
Marcel Proust
#31. Isn't it nice," he says, "once you've outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is?" Of
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#32. For when an old man relives his life, he lives it only by dwelling upon his memories; and when wisdom in an old man has outgrown the immediate impressions of life, the past viewed from the quiet of memory is something different from the present in all its bustle. The
Soren Kierkegaard
#33. We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.
Christopher McDougall
#34. O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.
William Shakespeare
#35. There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.
John G. Lake
#36. I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father.
Mona Simpson
#38. If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.
Price Pritchett
#39. What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in
Jonathan Franzen
#40. On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become outgrown when they reach adulthood.
Eckhart Tolle
#41. Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago?
Shannon Hale
#42. Like so many ancient cities, Perugia has long outgrown her early walls, and much of the new town is remorselessly ugly.
Francis Russell
#43. The pleasurable qualities associated with the previous ego phase, once that system is outgrown, become painful for the ego of the next phase.
Erich Neumann
#44. Haven't we outgrown all this tired irony? Weren't we supposed to give up acting twenty-two forever?
Bret Easton Ellis
#45. I'm an idealist
who has outgrown
my idealism
I have nothing to do
the rest of my life
but do it
and the rest of my life
to do it
Jack Kerouac
#46. Well, I've said it often enough to others: there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.
Elizabeth Berg
#47. The wise man leaves the past behind like a pair of boots he has outgrown.
Adriana Trigiani
#48. Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
Auguste Comte
#49. I just don't accept that there is a trade off between trade and democracy ... what we've got now is an institution that has utterly outgrown its roots which were noble ... the real difference was the introduction of the euro.
Ruth Davidson
#50. And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.
Han Nolan
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