Quotes About Growth

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thoughtAll that we did, all that we said or sangMust come from contact with the soil, from thatContact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

The fascination of what's difficult has dried the sap out of my veins and rent spontaneous joy and natural content out of my heart.

Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

The Coming of Wisdom with Time Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

It is at the edge of the petal that love waits

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

A great future doesn't require a great past.

Write her a letter, send her a flower, love only gets old if you let it.

No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

That good diffused may more abundant grow.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Here the heartMay give a useful lesson to the head,And Learning wiser grow without his books.

Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books....

How did things get to be this way?

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.