Growth Quotes

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the e...

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more dif...

Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What ...

Mr. J.L.B Matekoni," she asked, "do you think that our souls grow as we get older?"He did not answer...

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creati...

The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational haza...

What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections ma...

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. W...

You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark ...

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to bl...

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; ...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will ...

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating ...

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're ...

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a ...

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only ...

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and gro...

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how...

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go...

Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to gener...

If you look around you at the physical universe, you will see that it's nature is growth. Everything...

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagoni...

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so muc...

The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, li...

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love....

All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties a...

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

It was a strange thing about people- they could look the same but be different.

The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in...

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever cha...

Somehow in the chaos and mess she'd discovered who she was. Not a girl of the streets, though that w...

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth...

Several times in my ministry people have expressed the fear that self-acceptance will abort the ongo...

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy a...

Another great example of the power of vulnerability -- this time in a corporation -- is the leadersh...

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

This doesn't mean that we stop helping people set goals or that we stop expecting people to grow and...

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ...

Now, it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, [God] r...

... To be in time means to change.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effor...

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle...

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart...

Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to ...

We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our lear...

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our par...

No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establis...

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

Were you always such a snake," the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are?

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to tho...

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make c...

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave ...

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither t...

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoid...

I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerTh...

Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed;Forsake this wri...

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of pe...

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapi...

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes ...

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...

We owned what we learned back there the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be se...

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, an...

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent a...

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punis...

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of exp...

Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state...

I have awaited a storm that should deliver me, pluck me away and now it has come softly, even withou...

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that ge...