Quotes About Growth

I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." John 12:24–25.

If you give God the right to yourself, he will make a holy experiment out of you. God's experiments always succeed.

I know everything I know about.

Leading up to (divorce), the parties have to ry on different ways of being in the world. This means being single, sexually active, emotionally vulnerable with another human being.

Relationships don't only fail because the person you're with turns out to be the wrong person; they also fail when you yourself aren't yet the person you need to be.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder...

Writing a book is like injecting anabolic steroids: it if doesn't kill you, it'll make you stronger and hairier.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

No man could truly say what he was until he had been pushed to the edge of things with the precipice of his own ruin staring up at him.

Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past. I

Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Becoming is superior to being.

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

Green is the soul of Spring. Summer may be dappled with yellow, Autumn with orange and Winter with white but Spring is drenched with the colour green.

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

Always clear your mind after a bad play. Learn from your mistakes, but don't dwell on them.

If they're still sullen and whiny when they pass nineteen, they probably always will be. Another half century of bitching and moaning about bosses and wives and how the other guys got all the luck. "Riggs. Charlie Riggs.