Quotes About Growth

Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel.

Empiricism isn't true, and it is time to put away childish things.

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. Successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

Don't keep on with what is wrong. Look ahead, not behind.

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

You are always learning. At the end of each day, you know something you didn't know at the beginning. We're all learning on the job. This is true even when the thing you've learned is that you know less than you thought.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it.

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

In a garden, things grow . . . but first, they must wither; trees have to lose their leaves in order to put forth new leaves, and to grow thicker and stronger and taller. Some trees die, but fresh saplings replace them. Gardens need a lot of care. But if you love your garden, you don't mind working in it, and waiting. Then in the proper season you will surely see it flourish.

Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

me lleva a internarme por un cultivo de maíz cercado por eucaliptos errantes.