Quotes About Growth

la economía de China, a mediados de siglo, será casi el doble que la de Estados Unidos, la de India la seguirá de cerca y la Unión Europea ocupará el tercer puesto.

Like some kind of migratory bird, money has long had special places to go when it wishes to reproduce in peace.

La nature, d'elle-même, quand nous la laissons faire, se tire doucement du désordre où elle est tombée.

All human failings give us, in life, the means of exercising our philosophy

He said that woman is like the ivy-vine, Which, clinging to its oak, grows lush and tall, But, lacking that support, can't thrive at all.

Let us not apply to ourselves the points of general censure; let us profit by the lesson, if possible, without assuming that we are spoken against.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

The paradox of healing is that it is both holding on and letting go.

In the great litterbox of relationships, shit happens.

Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.

I just realized, baby, right now, thinking of how I could take this pain away from you, I just realized that you have to feel it. You gotta make your way through all the bad stuff to get to the good.

You changed me, baby," I told her, stroking her cheek. "I barely recognize who I was before you came into my life. And I don't…I don't want to go back to being that way.

Sometimes you just had to feel it. Sometimes you had to let the terror and the anger and the fear tear you apart. So you could feel what came next.

Sometimes I feel so awful that my life became better on the backs of all these aborted plans and broken dreams.

I wanted to show you the truth of me. And…loving you is a part of that. It's a part of who I am now.

Change is a choice. It's long and it's slow.

Of course one wants to feel better. But are we willing to have new experiences? Are we willing to work for it? Do we want it bad enough?

Those who are waiting are waiting very actively. They know that what they are waiting for is growing from the ground on which they are standing. . . . That's the secret. The secret of waiting is the faith that the seed has been planted, that something has begun. Active waiting means to be present fully to the moment in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it. . . . Waiting, then, is not passive.

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.