Quotes About Growth

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

Plants bloom with flowers, people bloom with smiles

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

Don't waste you youth by growing up !

O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.

Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.

I no longer complain about taking too much cream. I have made so many errors that unless I forgive myself and forget I will be in a helpless purple situation of self recrimination. The scorpio tail comes round to sting.

Verstehen braucht seine Zeit. Daran solltest du immer denken.

Wissen ohne Erfahrung taugt nicht viel.

Was kann ein Lehrer denn schon taugen, dem seine Schüler nicht über den Kopf wachsen?

We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

But what did he see in the clear stream below? His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

Hans Christian Andersen

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

His own image… was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Das Leben geht immer weiter, auch unter Ruinen. Die Ruinen sind unwichtig, aber das Leben ist wichtig. Das Leben mit einem Grashalm in der Stadtmitte zwischen tausend zerstörten Steinblöcken. Es geht immer weiter.

Had I lost love and appreciation because I had grown so bad, or had I grown so bad because I had lost its encouragement?

Oh, but childhoods go by so quickly too, we have them for such a short time - six years? Ten at the most? We are so alone in this life.