Quotes About Growth

It is not enough to hear a sermon, but you must eat it down, take in what it commands, and then it will purge your heart...Take the word and digest it, squeeze the juice of it into thy heart, and it will purge thee from all contrary corruption.

One is always nearer by not keeping still.

The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right.

And as the smart ship grewIn stature, grace, and hue,In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.

We can only learn so much and live.

I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.

The canker worm is at work within The fairest of her flowers.

Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

The spiritual journey can be a lonely road in the beginning. Later God will give us new friends. God does not take anything away except to give us something better.

How should we handle these afflictive emotions? By facing them, by feeling them. Feelings that have been repressed have to be allowed to pass through our awareness once again in order to be left behind for good. Most of the time, they don't need psychotherapy; they just need to be evacuated. We might say that we are suffering from acute psychic indigestion, a nausea of a psychological character that is interfering with our mental health and all our relationships.

Gifts of the Holy Spirit grow in direct proportion to the depth and sincerity of our love.

The false self is deeply entrenched. You can change your name and address, religion, country, and clothes. But as long as you don't ask it to change, the false self simply adjusts to the new environment.