“If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.”
“Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.”
“i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself”
“I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.”
“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.”
“One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.”