Quotes About Growth

The right path is the ascent.

The seed is saved—what do we mean by "saved"? It frees the God within it by blossoming, by bearing fruit, by returning to earth once more. Let us help the seed to save itself. 20.

Sufletul omului e aidoma lutului, neÈ™lefuit; neprelucrat înc?, cu porniri grosolane, dintr-o bucat?.

Dur?, aspr? mai e, se pare, clima pe p?mântul ?sta, iar seminÈ›ele cele mai de preÈ› nu încolÈ›esc sau sunt în?buÈ™ite de salvie È™i urzici.

Each man acquires the stature of the enemy with whom he wrestles.

Eu, baiete, vad civilizatiile cum vede un poet norii de pe cer, care urca, cresc, se umfla de ploaie, de furtuni si de fulgere; apoi sufla un vanticel, norii isi schimba forma, se fugaresc, se disloca, luand foc la apusul soarelui, risipindu-se la suflarea vantului. Ai putea sa privesti astfel civilizatiile, oamenii, zeii? E foarte greu, dar incearca baiete, curaj!

our world has a growing need for people trained in profound degrees of doubt, more so than for people skilled at handling certainties.

What today we mistake for a padlock, keeping us out, we may tomorrow find to be the key that lets us in.

Even if we do not like to show our weakness to the world, we should have friends, genuine and true like mirrors, clearly revealing our faults so that we can face and cure them. Let me be your mirror.

U onome što danas izgleda kao brava, koja te odvaja od tvoga cilja, sutra možeš prepoznati klju?.

Podría aprender más? ¿Cuánto era posible aprender? ''¿Cómo sera —se preguntó— aprender todo lo que puede enseñarse?

Un libro se puede quemar o perder, pero, cuando uno se lo aprende, el libro ya forma parte de su persona y los conocimientos duran tanto como él.

While we are in recovery we need to be able to strike a balance between not allowing our ego to do all the talking and not letting our low self-esteem to only present what is wrong with us.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.

It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the process that is taking place here and elsewhere in the country and around the world, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high.

The more you learn, the more you realize the less you know. You think you're approaching some kind of horizon, but in fact the horizon is receding, and the more you learn, the more you see that horizon is very far away

teaching should not be compared to filling a bottle with water but rather to helping a flower to grow in its own way.

The more you learn, the more you realize the less you know. You think you're approaching some kind of horizon, but in fact the horizon is receding, and the more you learn, the more you see that horizon is very far away. Life would be pretty boring if we understood everything so better that we don't understand everything

Our own accumulated experience becomes increasingly solidified over time. That is, we start to think we know how the world works, and things that accord with that evolving viewpoint we take in much more easily than things that seem to contradict how we think the world works. This evolution is a kind of ongoing process to the extent that we need to understand further and further how the world works.

anyone can consider what he now knows and can ask what he knew twenty years ago, and can see that in some unclear fashion he was striving towards something which he can only now understand … if he is fortunate.

On this side, one of the things we're concerned about is the quest for infinite growth (an unavoidable feature of capitalism) on a finite planet. With that imperative, the biosphere is now subsumed under the economy. This has to be reversed. That is, the biosphere is now seen in strictly utilitarian terms to be simply a storehouse of resources, and/or a receptacle for waste.