Quotes About Growth

Posit Science,

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Why always "not yet"?  Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? 

There is an art to losing, and like all art, it can be developed.

When we train our mind to embrace what's hard instead of trying to get rid of it, we have begun to walk a path of growth, happiness, and true resilience. Our

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.

As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one's passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

Some people grow up at 15, some at 38. It is more painful at 38.

There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body

Here, and everywhere, psychoanalysis must take the paradoxical position that the Child is Father to the Man; that Primal Father was once a boy, and, if there is anything to psychoanalysis, owes his disposition to his boyhood.

He wants us to understand that we are only branches which have changed trees. We never produced fruit without a tree! To

Now everything was going to be impossible, but better.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.