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Quotes About Growth

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.
~ Unknown
Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
~ Unknown
Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.
~ Unknown
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.
~ James Joyce
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
~ Fred Rogers
Love is like linen; often changed, the sweeter.
~ William Shakespeare
Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality...I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.
~ Anais Nin
One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family, and friends. Then, you meet someone who alters your conception of love, and you never know how you loved anything before because this kind of love is
~ Ellen Key
Is human love the growth of the human will ?
~ Ellen Key
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
~ Joyce Cary
True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.
~ Edmund Spenser
Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.
~ John Donne
Love is like a river, never ending as it flows, but gets greater with time!
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Love dies only when growth stops.
~ Unknown
I came to love, I came into my own.
~ Theodore Roethke
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
~ John Dryden
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
~ Unknown
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
~ Anne Frank
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In high school you can think you're in love; but I believe you have to know yourself completely before you can truly fall in love and be loved back by someone else.
~ Harriet Van Horne
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
~ Ethel Barrymore
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies
~ Swedish Proverb