Quotes About Growth

The push for full employment, along with the growth of advertising, has created a populace increasingly oriented toward work and toward earning more money in order to consume more resources.

For so many people, the stronger the evidence of failed strategies, the deeper they cling to their ways.

What's needed isn't change; it is transformation. Change seeks different solutions to intractable problems. Transformation asks different questions so that we can see the problems in a new light.

It is funny what a year can do.

Remember when you first learned how to swim? In the beginning you struggled mightily to keep your head above water. But then, one day, something amazing happened: You gave up fighting to stay afloat. And when you did, you rose to the surface and floated effortlessly.

I hate them." "Pity them, Emmon," Tosh said, "because the world they live in is small, and when it gets bigger fast, they won't know what to do.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

I wasn't the smartest kid in town but I've always thought if you hang around with smart people some of it's bound to rub off.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

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The essence of success and happiness results from actualizing your potential, which requires a constant process of learning and growing, as well as the recognition that making mistakes is an inevitable, even essential, part of life.

Learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. -Richard Bach

In my child's homework: Which of the following happens eventually? a) You are born, b) You die, c) A long winter comes to an end, d) Practice makes perfect. I no longer know how to answer this.

Just because your environment or living space changes doesn't mean that your attitude necessarily has to change.

Don't Polish Balls, Polish your Attitude

Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

Defeats are merely repeats with better information.

A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.

Keep calm when things don't go according to your expectations! Beautiful things always meet friction!

Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision.

Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.