Quotes About Growth

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.

I'll start with the small things

If one wants to be active, one mustn't be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they'll achieve it by doing no harm — and that's a lie… That leads to stagnation, to mediocrity. Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

Lord, keep my thoughts green! That is something one should say over and over again.

But one doesn't expect out of life what one has already learned that it cannot give, but rather one begins to see more and more clearly that life is only a kind of sowing time, and the harvest is not here.

Atualmente estou descontente comigo e descontente com o que faço, mas entrevejo a possibilidade de fazer melhor na sequência.

pareceu-me que você, assim como eu, estava sofrendo por ver sua juventude passar em brancas nuvens; mas se ela nasce e ressurge no que fazemos, nada está perdido e a capacidade de trabalhar é uma nova juventude.

What else can one do, when we think of all the things we do not know the reason for, than go look at a field of wheat? The history of those plants is like our own; for aren't we, who live on bread, to a considerable extent like wheat, at least aren't we forced to submit to growing like a plant without the power to move, by which I mean in what way our imagination impels us, and to being reaped when we are ripe, like the same wheat?

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

I had left romantic illusions behind me. I must make up for lost time now. I must work hard, but just when one has left the lost illusions behind, work becomes a necessity and one of the few pleasures left. And this gives a great quiet and tranquillity.

I know there are persons who think I ought to resign myself, and that it is against the rules not to consider myself beaten; but if they say of my proposal this summer, "If you sing before breakfast, you will cry before night," then you know the verse, He lost his feather in a fight But knew they'd grow again all right, Far finer than before

You have changed since then, you are no longer the same." Well, that is not entirely true. What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

I believe that if we knew everything we should attain some serenity. Now, having as much of that serenity as possible, even when one knows little or nothing for certain, is perhaps a better remedy for all ills than what is sold in the pharmacy. Much of it comes by itself, one grows and develops of one's own accord.

Your life would be empty indeed if you didn't regret anything.

Ben bunlar?n hiçbirini bilmem ama ruhunda kendini yenileyebilecek kadar enerjisi olan insana sayg? göstermesini bilirim. Tanr?m yaÅŸad???m?z çaÄŸ bir tembeller, ayaklar ça??d?r diye yak?namay?z, madem cennete pek inanamad?klar? halde bu çeÅŸit bir hayat süren bu tip inanlar ya??yor dünyam?zda.1

En ender rastlanan çiçeklerin açt??? yerleri bilirdi.

Personally I believe that the adversities one meets with in the ordinary course of life do us as much good as harm. The very complaint that makes one ill today, overwhelming one with discouragement, that same thing - once the disease has passed off - gives us the energy to get up and to want to be completely recovered tomorrow.

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.