Quotes About Growth

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

You can't change the mind with the mind alone, or we'd all be enlightened

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

No reality transforms itself.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself.

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

There is an ocean of endless opportunities, and there are so many things that one can do. I'm so fortunate that I've grown up with this sort of a philosophy and mentality.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.