Quotes About Growth

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat axe," said Moses in response to the new challenges. "I'm just going to keep right on building. You do the best you can to stop it.

The road to success is through constant blundering. —COLONEL FRANCIS W. PARKER

He says that all that happens when you go far, far away is that you discover you've brought yourself along.

Adolescence is a skin we never quite shed.

It was as Ginger's grandfather had said. It did not matter how far you go, you always take yourself with you.

But that is the way of the world, is it not? Every day a child steps away from the parent by the littlest distance, perhaps just the width of a mouse-whisker, but every day it happens and the days go by, one after another after another

The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.  The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you've ever been. The one constant in our lives is change. Daniel Gilbert

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.

Difficulties, disappointments, discouragements, and suffering are a part of every work experience, but they need not be seen as obstacles to God's purposes in our lives.

All too often I viewed my work as an obstacle to my spiritual growth.

When we appear to be "more a loser than a victor" on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually.

To this day, she's still sad. Because there's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I'm just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn't hurt me at all.

I've matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

You will never be told when the next bit of education is coming or where it's coming from or who the teacher will be. That information will only reveal itself after the fact. All that you can do is leave a little room there for the next lesson to come through. Someone will be carrying it. You just leave the door open a crack.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Teaching is seeing the world. The new world. Seeing a student like you take root, ready to flower and bloom any day.

A place where they could be people they never dreamed they'd be.

One must go somewhere, I suppose, it is abominable to keep still in nothingness

That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible. I could no longer live and stay the way I was, I said.