Quotes About Growth

Monitor your stocks. Hold on to stocks that continue to have growth potential, and sell those stocks with declining prospects.

It takes more than one kick in the pants to reverse a lifetime of unplanned apathy.

I find myself only by losing myself.

Did one learn or was one shaped?

I had that sensation which sometimes comes to us all, of returning to a situation that had already been resolved on some previous occasion, of being again committed to a tragic course of action, having learned nothing from that other time or those other times

He was twenty-five but had that elongated bony English look of not yet having completed the process of growing-up and filling out which meant in a few years he would suddenly appear middle-aged as well as beefy because to men like this everything seemed to happen at once round about the age of thirty; everything except white hair which was reserved for retirement and was equally sudden and the only sign that old age had arrived.

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all

A viagem é muito mais recompensadora quando deixa de ter que ver com a nossa chegada a um destino e se torna indistinguível de vivermos a nossa vida.

I wanted to find a new self in a distant place, and new things to care about.

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

Read to live better.

Paul Theroux

When something bad is done to me, I pretend that it happened a long time ago, to someone else.

he was turning sixty-two, not an age of life-altering shocks but only of subtle diminishments.

calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month.

I travel to find obstacles, to discover my limits, to ease the passage of time

If we do not test ourselves daily, in seemingly small ways, our spiritual selves will never build the strength we will need when life's major trials are presented.

But now Nature starts doing things. The hormones start rolling and those old testicles start producing and all the rest of it--like breathing. You don't go around asking for it. It happens. It happened to me when I was twelve. (Sean)

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.