Quotes About Growth

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,This is the common air that bathes the globe.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became.

The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud,These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

View every day as a school day and every relationship as an opportunity to learn. There is no such thing as an accidental encounter. Each person you meet has been sent by God for your edification.

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.

Few things are as essential as education.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

Life is a school of probability.

it is the continual effort of the beginning that creates the hoarded energy of the end;

Torn from its branch, the moon waned for a couple of weeks.

On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together.

Prayer is a refusal to settle for what is.

Because if you cling excessively to the past, you will miss the newness being enacted before your very eyes.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

Reading is not optional.

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.

We're suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don't read but, actually, we're condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, 'Take this or you're going to die.' We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.