Quotes About Growth

Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we're depriving them of happiness as adults?

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.

We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

Happy are those who evolve from within.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.

When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.