Quotes About Growth

Why do we fall? So we can get back up again.

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

trying to dig it larger. He knew there wasn't room enough for him to get between those roots.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

There are few pleasures equal to that of imparting to a voracious learner the knowledge that one has grown old and weary in acquiring.

Listen, you are no longer a boy. You are forty. When will you learn not to wait for chance but to build on what you have and use each day to consolidate your position? Why have you never been anything more than Tribune? Because your plans always begin with next month.

I'm awfully interested in how big things begin. You know how it is; you're twenty-one or twenty-two and you make some decisions. . . then whissh! you're seventy. You've been a lawyer for fifty years and that white-haired lady by your side has eaten over 50,000 meals with you. How do such things begin?

It is well to be attentive to successive ambitions that flood the growing boy's and girl's imagination. They leave profound traces behind them. During those years when the first sap is rising the future tree is foreshadowing its contour. We are shaped by the promises of imagination.

Thornton Wilder

she quoted the Spanish proverb, "The oak tree is in the acorn.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

El que se precie de conocerse bien y de saber inmediatamente lo que es válido y lo que no lo es, nunca podrá anotarse grandes éxitos en el campo del autoconocimiento. El que, por el contrario, parte de la idea de que cualquier animal de la calle lo conoce mejor de lo que él se conoce, va por buen camino.

If you can't stand the way this place is take yourself to higher places

Knowledge without Use and Expression is a vain thing, bringing no good to its possessor, or to the race. Beware of Mental Miserliness, and express into Action that which you have learned. Study the Axioms and Aphorisms, but practice them also.

El conocimiento que no se usa y expresa es una cosa vana que no aporta ningún bien a su poseedor o a la raza. Guárdense de la tacañería mental y expresen en la acción lo aprendido. Estúdiense los axiomas y aforismos, pero practíquense también.

This is what spiritual development means—the recognition, realization, and manifestation of the Spirit within us.