Quotes About Growth

She resents rusting unburnished when she wants to shine in use.

Civilizations grow and change and decline - they aren't remade.

An acquaintance with books and learning was not a thing that a frontier boy like John Wesley Powell could take for granted; he had to seize it as he could. Abe Lincoln said it for every such boy with brains and dreams in his head: "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is a man who'll git me a book I ain't read.

girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard,

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Green crammers of the green fruits of the world.

Booming and booming of the new-come bee.

And as he came he saw that it was spring,A time abhorrent to the nihilistOr searcher for the fecund minimum.

Man is an eternal sophomore.

The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, the body, it touches.

Spring is umbilical or else it is not spring.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Most people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying that they made them.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

that's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself". (p. 717)

When this physical body is no more capable of functioning, energies do not die with it, but continue to take some other shape or form, which we call another life. In a child all the physical, mental and intellectual faculties are tender and weak, but they have within them the potentiality of producing a full grown man. Physical and mental energies which constitute the so-called being have within themselves the power to take a new form, and grow gradually and gather force to the full.

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.