Quotes About Growth

How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long.

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

There's nothing that keeps it's youth So far as I know, but a tree and the truth

The trouble with a kitten is that....... It eventually becomes a cat!

The trouble with a kitten is THAT Eventually it becomes a CAT

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

The Tao is in the Passage rather than the Path. It is the spirit of Cosmic Change,--the eternal growth which returns upon itself to produce new forms. It recoils upon itself like the dragon, the beloved symbol of the Taoists. It folds and unfolds as do the clouds. The Tao might be spoken of as the Great Transition. Subjectively it is the Mood of the Universe. Its Absolute is the Relative.

wash off the journey

But the very success which had intoxicated them rendered them also too complacent to learn from less prosperous competitors.

Keep carrots away from soil that has recently had manure added into it, or they may grow "legs" and appear forked. Work used coffee grounds into the soil as fertilizer.

No. No risk, no failure. And without failure you're not really human. You're just skating on the surface of life.

An image of an image, which is a perfect place to live if you want to be something other than what you once were.

It had been a five-year exercise in self-immolation.

The situation is grave: the way we lean over each other, the way years later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded, with full grown tender things called souls.

O, to be stung by an errant bee. O, to sting. O, to see you again. Covered in spring.

Gdyby tak mo?na odm?odzi? cz?owieka, jak drzewo. ?ci?? z niego z?e wspomnienia, zeskroba? ca?y ból, wszelkie rozczarowania, jak martw? tkank?; poobcina? b??dy, g?upie decyzje, pomy?ki, prze?wietli? my?li. I ?eby to mo?na by?o robi? po ka?dej zimie, ?eby si? w nowy rok wchodzi?o czystym i niewinnym. Wiadomo przecie? – która? z kolejnych zim nas zabije.

But children aren't people. Children become people when they wriggle out of your arms and say "no.

Inimene muutub, kasvab vanadest oludest välja nagu laps rõivaist. Aeg voolab ja muudab kõike. On suuri ja väikesi sõdu, need suured muudavad maailma, väikesed inimest.

sometimes it happens that the souls of parents and children are fundamentally hostile to one another, and they meet in life in order to remedy this hostility.