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Quotes About Growth

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.
~ Edward Gibbon
Life is a journey with almost limitless possibilities.
~ Ken Poirot
Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.
~ Frederick Lenz
Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.
~ Compay Segundo
Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.
~ Frederick Lenz
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
~ Jasper Fforde
One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.
~ Jonathan Frakes
If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do.
~ Frederick Lenz
There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.
~ Frederick Lenz
What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.
~ Frederick Lenz
Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?
~ Bob Dylan
Man errs as long as he strives.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome.
~ Esa Saarinen
Life is only therapy.
~ Garth Brooks
Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.
~ Dan O'Neill
To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.
~ Ray Davies
In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the war, and - very much in third place - tax cuts.
~ Paul Krugman
Never look back' is my philosophy.
~ Helen Clark
We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
To teach how to live with uncertainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.
~ Bertrand Russell
It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way
~ Bertrand Russell
As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.
~ Jo Walton, The Just City