Quotes About Growth

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

We must be careful not to be so scared of getting out on a limb that we never get up the tree.

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

You keep learning all the time.

Words of wisdom: Drop that zero and get with the hero.

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

out of each pain which we dont mention a chestnut tree grows up and remains mysterious behind us out of each hope which we cherish astar arises and move unattainable in front of us

There is a certain 'niceness' to a friendship where I can be, as they say, myself. But what I really need are relationships in which I will be encouraged to become better than myself. Myself needs to grow a little each day. I don't want to be the myself I was yesterday. I want to be the myself that is developing each day to be more of a Christlike person.3

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Chapter 23 Chapter

We cannot travel the roads of success without ever crossing the streets of failures

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

At college, more than anywhere else, one was likely to make the friendships that supported one through life.

I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict and painful resurrection, should have led me through their dark and devious ways to this new beginning.

People talked so foolishly, I thought, about the ennobling effects of suffering. No doubt the philosophy that tells you your soul grows through grief and sorrow is right--ultimately. But I don't think this is the case at first. At first, pain beyond a certain point merely makes you lifeless, and apathetic to everything but itself.

At this time of the year it seems that everything ought to be creative, not destructive, and that we should encourage things to live and not die.