We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.
Richard Bach

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
Aeschylus

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead