Quotes About Growth

The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.

It was like giving a glass of brandy neat to someone who had never been weaned from a milk diet.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

To live, for him, has no meaning other than to drive oneself, to act with all one's strength. An existence without stress, without struggle, without growth has always struck him as mindless. Those who remain on the sidelines he sees as cowards, and consequently his personal enemies.

Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.

Output per worker in England did not increase at all between 1500 and 1800, according to the estimates by Angus Maddison in his 2006 volume The World Economy, a trusted source.

Flourishing is the heart of prospering—engagement, meeting challenges, self-expression, and personal growth.

flourishing comes from the experience of the new: new situations, new problems, new insights, and new ideas to develop and share.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

Es posible que tenga algo que ver con el trópico, aquí todo madura y se descompone con facilidad. Nada persiste.

The greatest gift a writer can give himself is permission to write badly.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Yes. All the worth-while things in life. All mixed up. Rooms in candle-light. Leisure. Colour. Travel. Books. Music. Pictures. People—all kinds of people. Work that you love. And growth—growth and watching people grow. Feeling very strongly about things and then developing that feeling to—to make

Some of his newly acquired knowledge brought pain, as knowledge is apt to do.

We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable...

Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.

You hold on to the good of a thing, the part that enriches you, and do not dwell on the sadness. It is unproductive.

I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

I would blossom if I were a rose.

Oh, the things I haven't seen and the things I haven't known, What with hedges and ditches till after I was grown, And yanked both ways by my mother and my father, With a "Which would you better?" and a "Which would you rather?" With him for a sire and her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am?

A infância não vai do nascimento até certa idade,e a certa altura a criança está crescida,deixando de lado as coisas de criança.A infância é o reino onde ninguém morre.

In this unlighted cave, one step forward That step can be the down-step into the Abyss. But we, we have no sense of direction; impetus Is all we have; we do not proceed, we only Roll down the mountain, Like disbalanced boulders, crushing before us many Delicate springing things, whose plan it was to grow.