Quotes About Growth

We're all on different paths, but action is hard work and you must drive your own soul.

An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own future.

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. God stoops o'er his head, Satan looks up between his feet—both tug— He's left, himself, i' the middle: the soul wakes And grows. Prolong that battle through his life! Never leave growing till the life to come!

The road to self-belief is potholed.

September is more than a month, really; it is a season, an achievement in itself. It begins with August's leftovers and it ends with October's preparations...

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

You may never get rid of the butterflies, but you can teach them how to fly in formation.

Richard Lovelace's book Dynamics of Spiritual Life

each transition will involve some kind of loss. Growth will always be costly; a new venture will always involve some form of letting go. It may be a matter of separation—from parents or from those who are part of an old way or an old world. It may involve leaving behind the comfortable and the secure. Each transition will be a small death, and the new life, the new opportunity and the new challenge will only come as we let go.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Jugend hat keine Tugend

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectibility is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud.

If you dont like life, move! Your not a tree!

It was one of those yearning and gentle days of late spring, suddenly warm, when the air turns greenish yellow, so thick is it with pollen and bloom.

Cheers to the that, I love college

activism can be the journey rather than the arrival;

I am often asked what keeps me going after all these years. I think it is the realization that there is no final struggle. Whether you win or lose, each struggle brings forth new contradictions, new and more challenging questions. As Alice Walker put it in one of my favorite poems: I must love the questions themselves as Rilke said like locked rooms full of treasures to which my blind and groping key does not yet fit.1

The Sayings of Confucius: "At fifteen I thought only of study; at thirty I began playing my role; at forty I was sure of myself; at fifty I was conscious of my position in the universe; at sixty I was no longer argumentative; and now at seventy I can follow my heart's desire without violating custom."1

I have learned to savor every minute of time with my four year old daughter not only because I know how quickly children grow up but also because I have no idea what state the world will be in when she is my age.

Transform Yourself to Transform the World

Just coming out of your mother's womb does not make you a human being. - Just getting old doesn't make you wise.

The Year of the Rat

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.