Quotes About Growth

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

The word "autism" still conveys a fixed and dreadful meaning to most people—they visualize a child mute, rocking, screaming, inaccessible, cut off from human contact. And we almost always speak of autistic children, never of autistic adults, as if such children never grew up, or were somehow mysteriously spirited off the planet, out of society.

Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.

We pass through elementary school, high school, and maybe college, and in one sense every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance. Education reinforces the habit of seeing the world through a certain lens. We

The highest practice is the one that is most effective, not necessarily the one categorized as "higher.

To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.

If you want change in your life, move 27 things in your house." The point here is to anchor your newest self in your environment by changing it to fit who you are now and who you want to be. Change is an integral part of life, and can be used to your advantage.

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it.

You must remember not to build on prayer and contemplation alone. Unless you strive to live the virtues, you will never grow beyond the stature of spiritual dwarves.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and practice them, you will never grow to be more than dwarfs.

Since God has given it such great dignity, permitting it to wander at will through the rooms of the castle, from the lowest to the highest. Let it not force itself to remain for very long in the same mansion, even the one of self-knowledge.

perfection consists not in consolations, but in the increase of love;

Let us look at our own shortcomings and leave other people's alone; for those who live carefully ordered lives are apt to be shocked at everything and we might well learn very important lessons from the persons who shock us. Our

It is true that I might stumble for trying to do too much too soon, but it is also certain that I will never succeed if I hope for too little, or out of fear of failing start not at all.

It is a most certain truth that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

Authentic prayer changes us, unmasks us, strips us, indicates where growth is needed.