Quotes About Growth

chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

You don't have to be an immediate expert at everything, Juli. The idea here is to learn something new.

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

El que todavía estaba avergonzado por sostener mi mano dos días antes de entrar a segundo grado. El que todavía era demasiado tímido para decir mucho más que hola. El que todavía estaba caminando por ahí con mi primer beso.

It's easy to find our better selves in the sunshine of prosperity. What we must remember is to not lose those selves during times of hardship.

chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe

I realized that Garrett was right about one thing — I had flipped.

Wendelin Van Draanen

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves

When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.

The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled down nearer and nearer to silence, which weren't confrontations with God but with the difficulty--in my own mind, or in the human lot--of knowing what or how to pray. Lying awake at night, I could feel myself being changed--into what, I had no idea.

The way of education leads away from home. That is what we learned from our children's education.

I've come down from the sky like some damned ghost, delayed too long…To the abandoned fields the trees returned and grew. They stand and grow. Time comes To them, time goes, the trees Stand; the only place They go is where they are. Those wholly patient ones… They do no wrong, and they Are beautiful. What more Could we have thought to ask?... I stand and wait for light to open the dark night. I stand and wait for prayer to come and find me here." Sabbaths 2000 IX

I never again would be able to put my life in a box and carry it away.

I became a sort of garden fanatic, and I am not over it yet. You can take a few seed peas, dry and dead, and sow them in a little furrow, and they will sprout into a row of pea vines and bear more peas—it may not be a miracle, but that is a matter of opinion.

If there is anything more fun than learning, I would appreciate someone telling me what it is…soon.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.

The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.