Quotes About Growth

Books are the ammunition of life.

I am no advocate of senseless and excessive cramming in studies, but a boy should work, and should work hard, at his lessons -- in the first place, for the sake of what he will learn, and in the next place, for the sake of the effect upon his own character of resolutely settling down to learn it. Shiftlessness, slackness, indifference in studying, are almost certain to mean inability to get on in other walks of life.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

The leaders of thought and of action grope their way forward to a new life, realizing, sometimes dimly, sometimes clear-sightedly, that the life of material gain, whether for a nation or an individual, is of value only as a foundation, only as there is added to it the uplift that comes from devotion to loftier ideals.

I am old-fashioned, or sentimental, or something, about books! Whenever I read one I want, in the first place, to enjoy myself, and, in the next place, to feel that I am a little better and not a little worse for having read it. It

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us…it is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

I am a part of everything I have read

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

THE DAY The day was a year at first When children played in the garden; The day shrank down to a month When the boys played ball; The day was a week thereafter When young men walked in the garden; the day was itself a day when love grew tall the day shrank down to an hour when old man limped in the garden The day will last forever When it is nothing at all.

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world's in a rush to be beautiful.

A new way of looking is needed in a world which believes that every individual has a right to flower, within limits, in his or her own way.

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.

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It's ironic that some plants thrive in soil that has been displaced. Due to the devastation around us, these flowers bloom profusely, yet I find their tenacity and beauty uplifting.

Winter-born children may end up being bigger and more academically inclined than those born in summer.

I may be a slut, but I'm a slut who is growing a conscience.

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.