Quotes About Growth

By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.

If I happen to come across a garden these days, I burst into bloom.

She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.

I don't hesitate when buying green bananas, but I'm slowing down.

Some days are not new book days.

What breaks us is rarely what we expect.

Never wear clothes that are bigger than you are unless you intend to grow into them. If you want to wear a great suit, either you believe it belongs to you or you'll look like you're thirteen and wearing your mother's clothes. Doesn't that make sense? It's the same in life. Never live a life too big for you. You either grow bigger to encompass it or shrink it to fit you.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

seorang guru tidak akan pernah bisa benar-benar mengajar kecuali dia sendiri masih belajar; sebuah lampu tidak akan menyalakan lampu lain kecuali ia terus menyala dengan apinya sendiri

The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.

If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a champa.

Open your door to that which must go, for the loss becomes unseemly when obstructed.

It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.

Turn a tree into a log and it will burn for you, but it will never bear living flowers and fruit.

Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.

Life has become richer by the love that has been lost.

For what are obstacles to the lower creatures are opportunities to the higher life of man.