Quotes About Growth

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

If ever we find the truth to be offensive, then we must be prepared to change what is true.

The road to Heaven is ascension; always climb upward.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

One has to move from one's comfort zone to challenge oneself.

What he learned from his favorite teacher was not obedience to authority but delight in the exercise of his mind.

infinite growth on a finite planet

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

A great flame follows a little spark.

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

Life is full of change, and that change eventually leads to whatever in our hearts.

You have to be a student of the game if you want to reach the top and stay there. Reaching the top is not the obstacle. Staying on top and making adjustments, that's the obstacle.

you. It wasn't time wasted, and we ain't kids anymore, either.

Young twigs will bend but not old trees.

Life is a series of changes—a process of going from the old to the new—from chronos to kairos. Growth, change, revival—all are processes. Life is connected. Not understanding this, we tend to despise the chronos times of preparing, sowing, believing and persevering. Our preference is to always live in the kairos times of fresh and strategic opportunities.

God helps watchmen by pointing out what needs to be seen and heard to aid the growth and health of a church.

The next morning, walking about the charred embers of so many of his hopes and dreams, the sixty-seven-year-old Edison said, "There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew."4

Remember that people come into your life for a purspose, so if they leave it's because that purpose has been filled. So, when they leave, keep living.

Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

How do you master all the varied techniques? By writing stories. Which is to say, by being willing to be wrong. Then, having been wrong, you check back through your stuff for process errors . . . places where you skipped over steps, or went off the path, or started with the road map upside down. Do that enough times, on enough stories, and eventually you'll learn.

Each trick mastered will free you just a little more from your feelings of inadequacy and frustration.

Each story teaches him new tricks . . . brings him new tools, new techniques. Insight continually grows in him, and so does understanding. So, he improves as he goes along . . . seldom falls into the same trap twice.