Growth Quotes

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too ligh...

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wr...

His life coiled back into the brown murk of the past like a twined filament of electric wire; he gav...

A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory ...

I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.

The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she...

All that grieved me - that I was half one thing and half another and nothing wholly - was the sorrow...

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the ...

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

What makes night within us may leave stars.

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to d...

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for g...

We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ...

A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish...

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels a...

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of...

re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults y...

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. ...

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, g...

Through my history's despiteand ruin, I have cometo its remainder, and herehave made the beginningof...

I suppose the test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped cari...

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy whe...

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages the...

Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest ...

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than m...

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the s...

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along ...

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so mu...

...The happy Warrior... 'tis, finally, the man, who, lifted high, conspicuous object in a nation's e...

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation f...

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human b...

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There ...

Who can tell? It may be that there must always be growth - and that if one does not grow kinder and ...

We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be importan...

Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of...

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...