Quotes About Growth

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. When work has disciplined a man, he may safely be left to himself...

When I got the library card, that was when my life began.

Despite our fears and worries, and they are very real to all of us, life continues — it goes on. In these three words I can sum up everything I have learned in my 80 years about life — it goes on.

Life. — Enjoy whatever flowers come with the manure.

Live for the roots Love the green Dance with the blossoms

Sometimes life gives honey and other times, stings; Sometimes we need roots and other times, wings.

Timeless literature keeps infinitely expanding, like the universe.

If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

Love blooms all sorts of flowers, thorns, and nettles.

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.

Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed... So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress.

Indeed, let us not forget, But also let us not dwell.

Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear.

Menopause is just Puberty's evil older sister.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

Well! well! It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. But it's hard. Hard.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Morning isn't just the sun coming up anew over the horizon — you are, too.

Not the day only, but all things have their morning.