Quotes About Growth

I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before.

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pigmies while you were looking the other way.

Looking back now across fifteen years, I could see with good clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

I began at that point the emotional examination to note how far my convalescence had gone — I was taller, bigger generally in relation to these stairs, I had more money and success and "security" than in the days when specters seemed to go up and down with me.

by means of certain small scars rising along its trunk, and by a limb extending over the river, and another thinner limb growing near it. This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age...the old giants have become piggies while you were looking the other way.

Love is a flower you got to let it grow.

Love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

They made us believe that each one of us is the half of an orange, and that life only makes sense when u find that other half. They did not tell us that we were born as whole, and that no-one in our lives deserve to carry on his back such responsibility of completing what is missing on us: we grow through life by ourselves. If we have a good company it's just more pleasant.

Non ci sono problemi solo soluzioni.

When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down Happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life.

If only Americans "could have their toys taken away from them, be spanked, educated and made to grow up, it might be worthwhile to act as a guardian for their foreign interests in the meantime. But when one can do none of these things?" So

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Your hair grows more quickly when you're anticipating sex.

Plants grow more quickly if you talk to them in a Geordie accent.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

All wealth is the product of labor.

The aim of inner healing is to change individuals—and indeed, the entire Body of Christ—into "a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13).

When we receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, one of the most important deaths we die is to the nurturing of our self-image.

Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thinking, one could say, is something we do only when we are no good at an activity.

At Stanford, he had experienced an epiphany: "I'm not really actually here to learn French, or whatever, I'm learning how to be able to learn anything, and then I can go forth and have a life. . . . I don't need the class." Learning was an end unto itself.

Learning how to learn on his own proved one of the most important lessons of his life.