Quotes About Growth

To morrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new.

Out of such prison, though Spirits of purest light,   Purest at first, now gross by sinning grown.

There are essentially two ways to grow your firm; to add new practice areas in your city, or to move and expand into new cities.

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

therefore all childish fear must be put away.

You are yourself a Sequoia. Stop and get acquainted with your brethren... It will do you good.

Don't be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit!

The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows.

I would love to live Like a river flows Carried by the surprise Of its own unfolding - Fluent

As clay anchors a tree in light and wind, May your outer life grow from peace within.

There is some strange sense in which distance and closeness are sisters, the two sides of the one experience. Distance awakens longing; closeness is belonging. Yet they are always in a dynamic interflow with each other. When we fix or locate them definitively, we injure our growth. It is an interesting imaginative exercise to interchange them: to consider what is near as distant and to consider the distant as intimate.

At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter?

On a farm you learn to respect nature, particularly for the wisdom of its dark underworld. When you sow things in the spring, you commit them to the darkness of the soil.

The more we recognize our found blessings, the more they increase around us.

feel that old age and aging is a time of great gathering, a time of sifting and a time of reaping the rewards of forgotten and neglected experience.

To live like this is to experience time as a constant invitation to growth

The earth is our origin and destination. The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows.

We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes toward us.

and warm awareness, you are going to have an incredible life. You are going to have sufferings as well, but you will always return to that place of warmth and fire within yourself.

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.