Quotes About Growth

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

I try not to live in the past. But sometimes the past lives in me.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

We often forget that the journey is just as important as the end destination, and evolution occurs all along the way.

Nothing in life has any business being perfect.

Strive to be better today than you were yesterday.

Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.

Time to plant trees is when you're young, So you will have them to walk among - So, aging, you can walk in shade That you and time together made.

Anytime you're gonna grow, you're gonna lose something. You're losing what you're hanging onto to keep safe. You're losing habits that you're comfortable with, you're losing familiarity.

What door is opened into soul through our wounds.

What ages is not merely your functions and organs, but the whole of your nature, that particular person you have come to be and already were years ago.

To the question, "Why am I old?" the usual answer is, "Because I am becoming dead." But the facts show that I reveal more character as I age, not more death.

The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur.

The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises..:

a fear-driven spirituality will always diminish rather than enlarge.

The truth is, all of life is a grand, blooming ambiguity.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

Mistakes are the portals for discovery.