When You Outgrow Someone Quotes

#1. We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

Chris Bohjalian

#2. The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

D.T. Suzuki

#3. To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.

Iyanla Vanzant

#4. Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Henry George

#5. I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why.

Warren Spector

#6. Couldn't you outgrow the little-girl fantasy? Couldn't love be gentler, smaller, quiter, not quite all-consuming?

Jess Walter

#7. Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#8. A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

Andrew Solomon

#9. Right now, even though he'd been dead for years, she wanted to collapse in her father's big arms and hear him tell her that everything would be all right. Do we ever outgrow that need?

Harlan Coben

#10. Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.

Stan Lee

#11. We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable ...

Edna O'Brien

#12. The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

Fred Brooks

#13. If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

James Russell Lowell

#14. She didn't mean to be sexy that moment, but even a winter nightgown couldn't hide that lovely outline. When will I outgrow my simple-minded fascination with the form she had happened to choose for her body? Never, I thought

Richard Bach

#15. The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

Irvin D. Yalom

#16. Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

Eckhart Tolle

#17. I don't think that any great issue ever gets resolved. I think we outgrow them.

Jean Houston

#18. As we change, we sometimes outgrow our friendships. And, since we cannot change this fact, it is best to simply accept it for what it is in order to appreciate the power that the friend had in your life when he or she was a part of it.

Lindsay Detwiler

#19. There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in Childhood's End. But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.

Arthur C. Clarke

#20. If we choose to believe that we're responsible for our experiences, the good and the so-called bad, then we have the opportunity to outgrow the effects of the past. We can change. We can be free.

Louise Hay

#21. I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where his original desire has reached such astounding proportions that the original object can no longer possibly appease it.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#22. I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.

Ed Weeks

#23. If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred

Christina Engela

#24. Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

Lucy Larcom

#25. Sometimes problems don't require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.

Steve Maraboli

#26. To each man one soul only is given; to each soul only is given a little power - the power at some moments to outgrow and swallow up the stars.

G.K. Chesterton

#27. As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

Dallas Willard

#28. Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

Douglas Horton

#29. May we not outgrow the belief that poverty is necessary? - Alfred Marshall 1890

Martin Ravallion

#30. It's a constant process of hoping you won't outgrow the ones you love, while fearing they'll leave you behind as they change. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't.

Jeffrey Pierce