Quotes About Growth

I used to drink a lot of beer and brandy when I was in my twenties. Today, I read books and my hangovers are worth talking about.

My experience has taught me that success comes not to those who swing for the fences every time at bat, but to those who commit themselves to a continuous program of constant improvement, base hit by base hit.

Woodman, M. (1982) Addition to Perfection. Toronto: Inner City Books.

Furthermore, he admonishes us: "If you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself."111

What is 'healthy' for one dominant ego-image at a particular stage of life may be decidedly unhealthy for the nascent ego-image of the next stage of life.

I concur with Adolph Guggenbühl-Craig's thesis in Marriage: Dead or Alive4that a marriage, like a person, individuates (grows and develops) and actualizes itself.

14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by continuous exercise to distinguish good from evil.

Bob] Dylan said, "I don't have to B.S. anybody like those guys up on Broadway that're always writin' about 'I'm hot for you and you're hot for me--ooka dooka dicka dee.' There's other things in the world besides love and sex that're important too. People shouldn't turn their backs on 'em just because they ain't pretty to look at. How is the world ever gonna get any better if we're afraid to look at these things.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

true wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

what had kept Lewis going all those years with so little outside support was the idea of improvement as an end in itself.

ingenue whose career was winding down

There was, I found, always more to learn.

Children always turn to the light.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.

If you aren't free of yourself how will you ever become yourself?

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

You're a bigger star in a bigger movie. If you don't like the part, change the script.