Quotes About Growth

As the Grateful Dead said, and writers' can attest to: Sometimes the light is shining on me, other times I can barely see; but lately, its occurred to me-What A Long Strange Trip Its Been.

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

All things good to know are difficult to learn.

I will learn by screwing up.

Dogs could mellow a wild boy, or open up a shy one.

We fought and argued and loved and learned through the long, cold voyage. We chose teams, disbanded, re-formed, chose again, and now the fit is perfection within diversity.

You seem to like helping, taking care of people," he said. "That is admirable." "You enjoy being nurtured?" "Well, that isn't all you promise. When you touch me, I feel a fire at my center. You want me to grow and find my true story, my purpose. You seem to want to be there when I see new things. You want to share and enjoy my discoveries.

You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don't need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.

The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.

Perfection is my willingness to be less than perfect

Suffering builds character. - Miranda Tate

A pitfall that most entrepreneurs face is that we become so absorbed in the day-to-day battle (and mind you, it's a glorious battle), that we lose sight of where we are and where we need to go. I believe an imperative for any entrepreneur is to work 'on' the business as much or more so than 'in' the business.

Immortality would have been meaningless, trapped in a "machine" with a finite number of possible states; in a finite time he would have exhausted the list of every possible thing he could be. Only the promise of eternal growth made sense of eternal life.

Only the promise of eternal growth made sense of eternal life. Kate

The only way up is up.

You'll never stop changing, but that doesn't mean you have to drift in the wind. Every day, you can take the person you've been, and the new things you've witnessed, and make your own, honest choice as to who you should become. "Whatever happens, you can always be true to yourself. But don't expect to end up with the same inner compass as anyone else. Not unless they started beside you, and climbed beside you every step of the way.

life must be lived forwards, but it can only be understood backwards.

I want you to gain power over what happened to you instead of letting it have power over you.

you have to leave something behind to go forward -Newton's Third Law of Motion

Anakin: "You look…different." Tahiri: "Older maybe? I'm fourteen now. Last week." Anakin: "Happy birthday." Tahiri: "You should have thought of it then, but thanks anyway. Dummy.

Real spiritual growth comes only through discipline and perseverance. In other words, it comes through sticking with it. One of the traps for all of us, however, is substituting activity for genuine fellowship with God. I

You show me a church that does not have a constant flow of new Christians coming in, and I will show you a church that is stagnating. We in the church have a choice: evangelize or fossilize! The

Bill Hull has prophetically written, "The crisis at the heart of the church is a crisis of product.

Jesus chose the disciples for what they would become, not for what they were at the time of their call.