Quotes About Growth

We are born believing. A man bears belief, as a tree bears apples.

What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of what you need to do

Montaigne says, "Books are a languid pleasure," but I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was; he shuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any other than such.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

The point of imperfection which we occupy -- is it on the way up or down?

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent we have discovered afterward that much was accomplished and much was begun in us.

we are what we know.

Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

The best rule of reading will be a method from nature, and not a mechanical one of hours and pages.

Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series. Every general law only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself. There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us. The

The world laughs in flowers.

A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

The earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build therefore your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.

The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

I have forgotten the books I have read, and so I have the dinners I have eaten, but they both helped to make me.

De multe ori, viitorul unui om a depins de lectura unei c?r?i.

I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten; even so, they have made me.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.