Quotes About Growth

78 million in 1900 to 230 million in 2000

The tools that strengthen the soul are understanding and living in objective love, engaging in the sensing exercise and meditation to strengthen the soul, and practicing love, compassion and humility to free it from the bondage of ego. Those are the basics." "That's

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

Successful system builders cannot work with a rigid demarcation between the system and the environment in which the system develops. They continuously seek to mold that environment so that the growth of the system is facilitated, often incorporating what was previously environment into the system, as happened when electrical supply companies came to control the regulative agencies set up to police them.

There was always a pass through the reef where the sweet water inhibited the growth of the coral. As

toughening-up process

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew…

Life is not made for happiness, but for achievement. The history of the world is not the theatre of happiness; periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony; and this dull content is unworthy of man. History is made only in those periods in which the contradictions of reality are being resolved by growth, as the hesitations of and awkwardness of youth pass into the ease and order of maturity.

Read the book not all at once, but in small portions at many sittings. And having finished it, consider that you have but begun to understand it. Read then some commentary, like Pollock's Spinoza, or Martineau's Study of Spinoza; or, better, both. Finally, read the Ethics again; it will be a new book to you. When you have finished it a second time you will remain forever a lover of philosophy.

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

They will learn and grow and love and struggle and create, and lift life up one little notch, perhaps, before they die. And when they pass they will cheat death with their children, with parental care that will make their children a little finer than themselves. Life wins.

For as no perfect view of a country can be taken from a flat; so it is impossible to discover the remote and deep parts of any science by standing upon the level of the same science, or without ascending to a higher.

life must breed.

Heaven and utopia are buckets in a well: when one goes down the other goes up; when religion declines Communism grows.

Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically[.]

To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed[.]

a man's maturity pays the price of his youth.

struggle is the indispensable accompaniment of progress

If men were entirely social, man would stagnate; a certain alloy of individualism and competition is required to make the human species survive and grow.

Society is a growth in time, not a syllogism in logic; and when the past is put out through the door it comes in at the window.

The tragedy of life is that it gives us wisdom only when it has stolen youth.