Quotes About Growth

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Prophets look at the world as finite, and people as constrained by their environment. Wizards see possibilities as inexhaustible, and humans as wily managers of the planet. One views growth and development as the lot and blessing of our species; others regard stability and preservation as our future and our goal. Wizards regard Earth as a toolbox, its contents freely available for use; Prophets think of the natural world as embodying an overarching order that should not casually be disturbed.

A new Christian cannot be called spiritual, simply because he has not had sufficient time to grow and develop in Christian knowledge and experience.

A Christian of longer standing may not be spiritual, not because he has had insufficient time but because during the years of his Christian life he has not allowed the Holy Spirit to control him.

That word maturity seems to hold the key to the concept of spirituality, for Christian maturity is the growth which the Holy Spirit produces over a period of time in the believer.

While this may simply be another way of saying that spirituality is Christian maturity, it tries to delineate more openly the factors of Spirit-control over a period of time.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

TIME IS ARCHIMEDES' LEVER in investing.    Archimedes is often quoted as saying, "Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the earth." In investing, that lever is time. (And the place to stand, of course, is a firm and realistic investment policy.)

If making mistakes is the inevitable cost of striving, correcting mistakes—and learning how to avoid repeating them—is the best measure of a learning organization that will continue to get better and better.

The price of tuition for Self University is desire. Your degree is a better life.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

Riding is, therefore, an ongoing, never-ending, challenging process. That aspect makes riding so intelligent and significant an effort. One merely strives, never arrives.

A closed book makes a page; Open heart makes a thousand faces. (Un livre fermé fait une page; Coeur ouvert, mille visages)

a seed and a glove, symbol of his action and his work. (une graine et un gant, symbole de son action et son travail.)"

But the little girl growing up still hisses a tune, that of the cottage train. (Mais la petite fille qui grandit siffle toujours un air, celui du train de la chaumière)"

Collecting stones does not make fruits. (Des pierres - Cueillir - N'en fait - Des fruits)

Flower is breathed in its height. (Fleur se respire - Dans sa hauteur.)

Greater cane does not make greater humans. (Une plus grande canne - N'agrandit l'homme.)