Quotes About Growth

The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.

I consider myself a student of life.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.