Quotes About Growth

I think you have to get better, as you get older. Or, your perspective gets better, even if the work doesn't seem any better. When I was writing songs when I was 17, I was trying to write from a more experienced point of view. As you get older, you're not writing from an imagined point of view. You guess less.

I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.

A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead.

Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Now you are like morning bread, Smooth and pleasant. I hardly taste you at all for I know your savour, But I am completely nourished.

All recurring joy is pain refined.

Beneath this sod lie the remains Of one who died of growing pains.

New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.

Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.

The future belongs to the educated.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

se a gente segue assim, para trás ou para a frente, vê que não pode se partir o fio da vida, mesmo que está podre nalgum lado, ele sempre se emenda noutro sítio, cresce, desvia, foge, avança, curva, pára, esconde, aparece... " - from "Luuanda

happy endings start with new beginnings.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning -- the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind.

It is easy to hire someone else to do work for us—someone to clean, someone to tend the garden—but no one can take our place along that road that leads to the conquest of our fears, so that we can adapt to the world and find our right place in it.

Every child is at some point a small Perseus, and this infatuation with the dark and the lonely is for most people an acute condition, best caught early in life like mumps, and which seldom recurs.

Your body expresses yesterday in what it wants today. If you think: yesterday I was, tomorrow I shall be, you are thinking: I have died a little. Be what you are becoming, without clinging to what you might have been, what you might yet be. Never settle. Leave definitiveness to the undecided; we don't need it.

I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.

I pray my soul will welcome always that small seed. That I will hail it when it enters me. I don't mind being grit, soil, dirt, mud-brown, laced with the rot of old leaves, if only the seed can

Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me.

We have no idea what lies ahead or how God will open doors of potentiality when we consciously choose to get out of the ruts we're in and start moving down new paths about which we can be excited--even passionate.