Quotes About Growth

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said.

It is much easier to see the redemptive role of pain and suffering in God's plan if you are not actually undergoing pain and suffering. It was only by struggling with such feelings, however, that growth occurred. Each victory over discouragement gave an increase in spiritual courage; every success, however fleeting, in finding the hand of God behind all things, made it easier to recapture the sense of his purpose in a new day of seemingly senseless

Striving instead to eliminate all self-will, to accept God's will revealed in the circumstances of daily life, is the surest way to achieve growth in conformity to the will of God.

No matter how close to God the soul felt, how blessed it was by an awareness of his presence on occasion, the realities of life were always at hand, always demanding recognition, always demanding acceptance. I had continuously to learn to accept God's will—not as I wished it to be, not as it might have been, but as it actually was at the moment. And it was through the struggle to do this that spiritual growth and a greater appreciation of his will took place.

Many persons wonder why they don't amount to more than they do, have good stuff in them, energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.

Instead of filling in the blanks, I wanted to be blank and be filled in.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But, though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

When bad habits become a habit, you have to turn over a new leaf.

I simply wasn't born to remain in the same place for evermore...

Rumo!" said Rumo. "That's right!" Smyke exclaimed. "You Rumo, me Smyke." "You Rumo, me Smyke." Rumo repeated eagerly. "No, no." Smyke chuckled.

Nog één ding, jongen, wat je in je oren moet knopen: het gaat niet om hoe een verhaal begint. Ook niet om hoe het eindigt. Maar om wat daartussenin gebeurt.

Mein Freund erkannte tatsächlich, daß es so nicht weiterging, wenn er nicht in einer Zwangsjacke enden wollte. Er sah ein, daß er sich mehr den weltlichen Dingen zuwenden mußte. Also verließ er seine Wahngebäude, ließ sie zu wunderschönen Ruinen verfallen, die er nur noch selten aufsuchte. Und er konzentrierte sich nun auf das, was ihn umgab.

Lest soviel ihr könnt! Lest Straßenschilder und Speisekarten, lest die Anschläge im Bürgermeisteramt, lest von mir aus Schundliteratur - aber lest! Lest! Sonst seid ihr verloren!

Lesen ist eine intelligente Methode, sich selber das Denken zu ersparen.

I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

You are actually doing creative work, and you may find what you really want rather than what you thought you wanted.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

La humildad es ser consciente de la propia insuficiencia.

La paciencia es una de las habilidades más difíciles de lograr para cualquier persona, porque implica desprenderse de las expectativas y resignarse a que las cosas sigan su curso.

Aléjate de vez en cuando de los temas que te preocupan, cambia de disco y deja que la mente se reorganice y adquiera una nueva perspectiva.

Una ignorancia lúcida es la que te permite aprender de otros sin arrogancia, reconocer tus límites sin complejos y sin sentirte incompleto por ello.