Quotes About Growth

Nunca nadie me ha sobornado tanto como la rutina. Todo los días ensayas la misma obra, un día te la aprendes y ahí poco a poquito vas torciéndola a tu gusto. O te la van torciendo a su antojo, que es lo que pasa cuando te la crees.

Success Should Never Breed Complacency

For I believe that the best life is lived by those who take the best care to make themselves as good as possible, and the pleasantest life by those who are most conscious that they are becoming better.

It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.

With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children.

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.

I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal.

Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean it, this one to dress it, this one to allow it to rest, and each of these rooms can also just as well be the room for laughing or the room for listening or the room for apologizing or the room for intimate togetherness, and, of course, there are the rooms for the new members of the household.

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone.

A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed.

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches.

It is true that those we meet can change us

can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

The grand march of progress apparently includes the unfortunate necessity of chopping down every obstacle in its way.

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For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact.

In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody—in the guise of personal "growth" and "awareness"—the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope, at bottom, merely to survive its collapse.

O ''crescimento'' tornou-se um eufemismo para a sobrevivência.

A ideologia do crescimento pessoal, superficialmente otimista, irradia um profundo desespero e resignação. É a fé dos que não têm fé.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,That sometime grew within this learned man.

Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit.

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.