Quotes About Growth

one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions, which seem such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows.

ToÅ£i oamenii care ÅŸtiu s? citeasc? au puterea de a se dep??i pe ei înÅŸiÅŸi, de a multiplica în mod creator modurile lor de existen??, au puterea s? fac? în aÅŸa fel încît viaÅ£a lor s? fie interesant? ÅŸi plin? de semnificaÅ£ie.

Dünyay? deÄŸiÅŸtirmek istedim, anlad?m ki kesin olarak deÄŸiÅŸtirebileceÄŸiniz tek ÅŸey bizzat kendinizdir.

The machine turns, turns and must keep on turning—for ever. It is death if it stands still. A thousand millions scrabbled the crust of the earth. The wheels began to turn. In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions. Stop all the wheels. In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death.

Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth.

en ningún caso debes entregarte a una morosa meditación sobre tus faltas. Revolcarse en el fango no es la mejor manera de limpiarse.

Experientia docet ? Experientia doesn't.

Did you ever feel,' he asked slowly, 'as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it the chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you could be using if you knew how?

was fourteen.

They'll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an "instinctive" hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned.

Ng??i bi?t ??c n?m trong tay s?c m?nh ?? khu?ch ??i b?n thân mình, ?? nhân lên nh?ng cách mình t?n t?i, ?? l?p ??y cuá»™c ??i mình má»™t cách Ä'áng k? và thú v?.

I want to know what passion is,' he said. 'I want to feel something strongly. We are all grown-up intellectually and during working hours,' he went on, 'but we are infants where feeling and desire are concerned.

Experience teaches only the teachable

If you give experience a chance, if you're prepared to go along with it, the results are incomparably more therapeutic and transforming.

Revolcarse en el fango no es la mejor manera de limpiarse

He was thinking of death; death in the form of a new life growing and growing in his belly, like an embryo in a womb. The one thing fresh and active in his old body, the one thing exuberantly and increasingly alive was death.

Preparation for ultimate death is to be aware that your highest and most intense form of life is accompanied by, and conditional upon, a series of small deaths all the time. We have to be dying to these obsessive memories..

We cannot hope to utter anything worth saying, unless we read and inwardly digest the utterances of our betters.

Ne sebeple olursa olsun hatan?z?n üzerinde kara kara düÅŸünmeyin. Temizlenmenin yolu çamurda yuvarlanmak deÄŸildir.

Pero el hombre que regresa por la Puerta en el Muro ya no será nunca el mismo que salió por ella. Será más instruido y menos engreído, estará más contento y menos satisfecho de sí mismo, reconocerá su ignorancia más humildemente, pero, al mismo tiempo

Porque son los detalles, como todo el mundo lo sabe, los que conducen a la virtud y a la felicidad...

We all confront the parameters of our cage eventually. What we do when we reach those bars helps define us.

Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based on experience of the past, and every step in his progress extends his empire. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or what he may do.

Por mucho que las cosas cambien, si no las miras, si no tiendes la mano para tocarlas, nunca te darás cuenta de que ya no son las que eran. No pasará nada.