Quotes About Growth

You cannot master difficult situations without practice. You cannot practice mastery without being in the situation. When you know this, difficulty becomes an opportunity to push past your thresholds.

A paradox of life: The problem with patience and discipline is that developing each of them requires both of them.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas and the same experiences.

If he were not as he is, he would be better than himself.

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection

As to the learning that any person gains from school education, it serves only, like a small capital, to put him in a way of beginning learning for himself afterward.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

Life is not stationary, nor can be. The living body is forever changing by the ceaseless vibrations of the life within. The mental powers are forever built up or depleted by the thoughts that flow from them, and the truth that is discovered by them, and that reacts upon them.

At every step of this moving upward into larger life, from seed to man, pain is seen to be an attendant fact. The seed or bird or man could well say, "Thank you pain; by you I have come into higher, larger life."