Quotes About Growth

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and haulers of water.

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

The road to the mountain of holiness first passes through the valley of humility.

I'd like to teach you the names of these trees, to confess how much I need to miss you to finish this off.

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [...] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense their growth has been arrested. Certainly many patients look to therapy to reinstitute the growth process. (33)

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

A tree grows taller to the degree that its roots go deeper and wider. If we wish to jump high, we must first bend close to the ground to get the impetus for the spring. Like a jet engine, we move forward by thrusting backward. In therapy each backward move provides the energy for the leap forward. Regression and progression go on side by side.

intellectualized insight alone is not sufficient to result in positive changes.

El proceso creativo frecuentemente conlleva algún dolor en el esfuerzo por lograr que una concepción dé frutos.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Seek to be the man that you are least likely to be, and aim at a comprehensive development of 'all righteousness and goodness and truth.

The opening trick to becoming is to convince yourself that you already are

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

great things may come from moments of nothingness.

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

'Tis education forms the common mind:Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance,And men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.