Quotes About Growth

Åži totuÅŸi, cei doi tineri nu-ÅŸi m?rturisiser? niciodat? c? se iubesc. Crescuser? unul lâng? altul ca doi arbori care-ÅŸi amestec? r?d?cinile sub p?mânt, crengile în aer ÅŸi mireasma în v?zduh; doar dorinÈ›a lor de a se vedea era aceeaÅŸi; dorinÈ›a aceasta devenise o nevoie, ÅŸi mai curând ar fi înÈ›eles s? moar? decât s? se despart? m?car pentru o singur? zi.

No es el árbol el que abandona a la flor, sino la flor la que abandona al árbol.

El niño es pequeño, y contiene al hombre; el cerebro es estrecho, y alberga al pensamiento; el ojo es sólo un punto, y abarca leguas.

Mas los puntos de vista cambian mucho en la vida, que es una linterna mágica cuyos aspectos altera todos los años el ojo del hombre. De ahí resulta que, del último día de un año que se veía blanco, el primer día de otro que se verá negro, sólo hay el espacio de una noche.

A vida é uma tempestade (...) Um dia você está tomando sol e no dia seguinte o mar te lança contra as rochas. O que faz de você um homem é o que você faz quando a tempestade vem.

The pride of those who cannot edify lies in destruction

Youth is the flower of which love is the fruit; Happy the gatherer who picks it after watching it slowly mature.

On ne devient pas adulte, on finit adulte.

Immobilisé, je me mis à vivre avec moi, ce qui n'était pas dans mes habitudes ; et cette intimité nouvelle me fit découvrir le miracle de se côtoyer réellement, préambule à tout amour réel.

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

The American lives in a land of wonders, in which everything seems to be in constant flux, and every change seems to mark an advance. Hence the idea of the new is coupled in his mind with the idea of the better. Nowhere does he perceive the limits that nature may have imposed on man's efforts. In his eyes, that which does not exist is that which has not yet been attempted.

The passion for physical comforts is essentially a passion of the middle classes: with those classes it grows and spreads, with them it preponderates.

Although man resembles the animals in several respects, one feature is peculiar to him alone: he perfects himself and they do not.

the great advantage of the Americans consists in their being able to commit faults which they may afterward repair.

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

EÈ™ti dement omule. Ai dat o arm? înc?rcat? unor copii. - ÎncetaÈ›i s?-i mai trataÈ›i ca pe niÈ™te copii È™i vor înceta s? se mai comporte ca niÈ™te copii. Cine dracu' sunteÈ›i voi s-o faceÈ›i pe supraveghetorii?... ExplicaÈ›i-le cum funcÈ›ioneaz? arma înc?rcat?... L?saÈ›i-i s? creasc?. Este momentul.

What's the use of the strongest chisel in the world if it doesn't have an edge? We've got to sharpen your wits, Gully. Got to educate you, man, is all.

Perhaps the most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content.

He that builds a city, and does not intend it should increase, commits as great an absurdity, as if he should desire his child might ever continue under the same weakness in which he is born. If it do not grow, it must pine and perish; for in this world nothing is permanent; that which does not grow better will grow worse.

A well-governed state is as fruitful to all good purposes, as the seven-headed serpent is said to have been in evil; when one head is cut off, many rise up in the place of it. Good order being once established, makes good men...

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

These days, we are closer to the gnarled

When I heard about spiritual direction, I felt as if I was seeing an old friend I had never met. Spiritual direction (this new old friend) led me deeper into the love of God. Spiritual direction helped me experience more intimately the God of love. And spiritual direction equipped me to be in relationship with others where I could love as I was loved.