Quotes About Growth

When I was young, the future was where all the good stuff was kept, the party clothes, the pretty china, the family silver, the grown-up jobs. The future was a land of its own, and we couldn't wait to get there. Not that youth wasn't great, but it came with disadvantages; I remember the feeling I was missing something really good that was going on somewhere else, somewhere I wasn't. I remember feeling life passing me by. I remember impatience. I don't feel that way now.

Take any ten years of your life, reduce them to two pages, and every sentence has to be three words long. It's a good assignment. You can't hide behind a sapling.

Suffering is the finest teacher," said an old friend long ago. "It teaches you details.

We cut down (after much deliberation) two big prickly bushes that were growing together like eyebrows at either side of our small path.

Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.

Even if you are what your parents made you, if you stay that way, it's your own darn fault. We're not going to undo the past. Let's focus on making the necessary changes to improve your functioning.

In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.

It is useless endeavor to fight the ego in the open; like a wounded hydra, it produces two heads for every one cut off. We must not indulge in self-scrutinization; we must not concentrate upon the problem of egocentricity. The way to purify the self is to avoid dwelling upon the self and to concentrate upon the task.

The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself; that man who is part of this world may

The Bible is to be understood by the spirit that grows with it, wrestles with it, and prays with it.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Too big to cry too young to laugh...

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.

Yang penting bukan berapa kali aku gagal, tapi yang penting berapa kali aku bangkit dari kegagalan

Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.