Quotes About Growth

This summer has been so short, so small. I think that like "Alice" it ate the cake that said "Eat Me", and dwindled and dwindled until it was so tiny that it ran out through the cracks under the door.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Decisione non e' difficile, pero' si dolorosa. Tempi cambiano e noi no. Li sta nocciolo e midollo di questione.

Treinta años después Aráoz va pensando, mientras abre la puerta y siente la noche fresca, casi fría, que los pasos que damos al principio de la vida son tan hondos que desde entonces no podemos sino caminar una y otra vez por esas huellas.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that ia eternity.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

De mi cuerpo en descomposición crecerán flores, yo estaré en ellas, y eso es la eternidad

Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.

They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

we see that it's only the old numbers game again, the monomania of small and very simple minds in the grip of an obsession. They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

The plow of mortality drives through the stubble, turns over rocks and sod and weeds to cover the old, the worn-out, the husks, shells, empty seedpods and sapless roots, clearing the field for the next crop. A ruthless, brutal process—but clean and beautiful.

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

But it's all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure—they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered.

We'll work it out as we go along. Let our practice form our doctrine, thus assuring precise theoretical coherence.

They won't break me. I've got a nimble and pliant will, and the powers of a chameleon. I'll conform for a year, or two years if necessary, and when I get out I'll be a wiser man. Maybe a sadder man. Possibly bitter, too—I hope not.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say ? it leaves me something to do.

Every monster was a man first.

Progress is a set of assumptions.

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.