Quotes About Growth

Like the trees and winds and waters, we pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves....that the world is changed.

The Promise of This Day Look to this day, For it is life, The very life of life. In its brief course lie all The realities and verities of existence, The bliss of growth, The splendor of action, The glory of power— For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. Sanskrit Proverb

I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

It is a mark of maturity to deal with the problem rather than suppress it

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.

God moves into our lives by divine design, to periodically disturb our equilibrium. That's how he develops us.

Hasta que no cambies tu vida y te vuelvas como un niño no podrás entrar al reino del cielo". Jesús.

El error y verdadero pecado es la identificación con una idea particular, puesto que allí el crecimiento se obstruye y bloquea. En cambio, sin identificación todo fluye y se fluye en el todo sin ningún obstáculo.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul. (El Filibusterismo)

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark!" (El Filibusterismo)