Quotes About Growth

The future has taken root in the present.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Youth is wholly experimental.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

If I could go through it all again,the slender iron rungs of growing up,I would be as young as any,a child lostin unreality and loud music.

In it, he pushed the metric of typewriter spaces, and quoted from a poem, "The Catholic Bells," to show us Williams's "mature style at fifty"! This was a memorable phrase, and one that made maturity seem possible, but a long way off. I more or less memorized "The Catholic Bells," and spent months trying to console myself by detecting immaturities in whatever Williams had written before he was fifty.

That was the first growth, the heir of all my minutes, the victim of every ramification- more and more it grew green, and gave too much shelter. And now at my homecoming, the barked elms stand up like sticks along the street. I am a foot taller than when I left, and cannot see the dirt at my feet. Yet sometimes I catch my vague mind circling with a glazed eye for a name without a face, or a face without a name, and at every step, I startle them. They start up, dog-eared, bald as baby birds.

The thick lemony honeysuckle, climbing from the earthroot to your window, will open more beautiful blossoms to the evening;

Past fifty, we learn with surprise and a sense of suicidal absolution that what we intended and failed could never have happened— and must be done better.

If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.

great poetry marches along the path that leads to abundance of life, and not to a feeble and degenerate egotism. The

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

Warren is stuck in Sunday School-level, pretheological fundamentalism. It is religious infantilism of the kind that Freud to conclude that religion is nothing more than neurotic wishful thinking and the refusal to grow up. I believe there is a good bit more to religion than that, but I'm afraid Freud was right about Warrenism. It is a pinata, made of brightly colored paper, filled with sweet candy, and too easily knocked apart.

Born-again living seemed to me just a crutch which no longer facilitated healing and growth, but actually protracted immaturity.