Quotes About Growth

Accepting Christ" is only the beginning, not the ultimate goal. Likewise, evangelism is vital, but so is discipleship. To go no deeper is to risk being like the seed that fell not on good soil but on rocky ground, sprouting up but bearing little or no fruit. Focusing solely on God's gift of free salvation is focusing on the minimum.

When this uneasy feeling forms, in a context of awareness, the person is thereby already living beyond the problem, already living in and toward what would be right for her.

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I'm silent. Silently, I'm ready To be transformed, earth, into you.

And if you knew from what scraps Poems are born — without shame Like yellow dandelions by a wormy fence, Like wild spinach or the common burr.

I look upon a year lived as a year earned; and each year earned means a greater treasury of experience and power laid up against time of need.

At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

But this, it seems to me, should be the grand leading principle of a mother in the education of her daughter, to give her such faith in herself, such knowledge of the laws of her own being, such trust in the guiding power of the universe, that she will have a principle of life and growth within her which will react upon all outward circumstances and turn them into means of education.

What the child is and is becoming--that is the question today with the foremost teachers, not how much he knows.

Disconnecting from my young self was a way of putting distance between the tragedy of those years and a future that seemed inaccessible.

He'd always loved how she fought him. He loved the crackle and spark of her wit. Now he discovered he also loved the way she lay against him in what felt like perfect trust. … Antonia was a tall, vital woman, no shrinking miss. Now she felt brittle and vulnerable. He tightened his hold and told himself the surge of protectiveness meant nothing. Again he couldn't quite believe it.

It gradually dawned on him that he needed time and an ocean of love to heal the wounds of the past.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

There are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt to liberate themselves.

Vivimos atrapados entre el pasado agitado y examinado, y un futuro que espera nuestro trabajo

At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

Did he know about the doping?' Children at sports schools were given hormones under the guise of vitamins. In a scandal that has come to light since the Wall fell, the pills accelerated growth and strength, but turned the little girls halfway into boys.

Et parce qu'on ne peut pas grandir dans une maison où les gens ne s'aiment plus, si? Non, on ne peut pas. Pousser peut-être, mais pas grandir. (L'échappée belle, p.70)

But, you see, if being an intellectual means you like to learn, that you're curious and attentive and can admire things and be moved by them and try to understand how it all hangs together, and try to go to bed a bit less stupid than the day before, well, then yes: not only am I an intellectual but I'm proud to be one. Really proud, even.

T?da ir gandr?z ikviena cilv?ka dz?ve. M?s laipojam, mekl?jam kompromisus, mums katram ir savs mazais g??vums ?ep?s k? parastam dz?vniekam. M?s to glaud?m pa spalvai, m?s to dres?jam, m?s tam pie?eramies. T?da ir dz?ve. Ir drosm?gie, un ir tie, kuri piel?gojas. Tas nogurdina daudz maz?k – piel?goties…

Tu crois que c'est comme tes mines de crayon ? Tu crois que ça s'use quand on s'en sert ? - De quoi ? -Les sentiments.