Quotes About Growth

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. 'All men make mistakes,' said the ancient Greek Sophocles. 'But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only sin is pride.

Un bebé era como una revolución, pensó Grigori: era posible iniciarla, pero no controlar qué derrotero tomaba. La

Un enfant, c'est comme une révolution ; on le met en route, mais on ne sait pas ce que ça va donner.

Se preguntó cuánto tiempo más tardaría en sobreponerse.

from her training, that

He was twelve years old, and he sought ringing certainties. He would have to learn slowly, like everyone else.

Ethel recordaba cómo le habían crecido los pechos a Dilys más o menos por la época en que se dio cuenta de que en realidad sí podías quedarte embarazada haciéndolo de pie.

She had always had this ability to make him revise his attitudes, he recalled. It was an uncomfortable process, but she was often right.

There is a special mixture of wisdom and innocence that comes only to adolescents. - Ursula Dewar

Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages.

Fathers were supposed to be invulnerable - but that attitude was childish, he now saw. Irritatingly, he might have to change his outlook. He could no longer be merely indignant and resentful. He was not the only sufferer. Dad had hurt him, but he had hurt Dad as well, and they were both responsible. Feeling responsible was not as comfortable as feeling outraged.

Until you had a child, you did not understand how much they had to learn.

Todos los hombres cometen errores», dijo el filósofo griego Sófocles.

We can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.

You must go through a winter to understand.

And the redwinged blackbirds sing in the budding greengage plumtree.

Money tends to produce more money—when invested right.

And remember, the value of a rental property increases based on its operations and cash flow.

In the early days of my first property management and real estate deals, there was a lot of trial and error and I made my share of mistakes. But for every one mistake I made, I learned ten lessons and got smarter every day. I started to see patterns, discover formulas and systems, and develop a network of people I could count on. It took time and it took work, but the more I pursued my dream, the luckier I felt and the more often magical opportunities presented themselves to me.

You can turn your weaknesses into strengths.

The best thing about the future is that it happens one day at a time.

At the Integral stages of development, the entire universe starts to make sense, to hang together, to actually appear as a uni-verse—a "one world"—a single, unified, integrated world that unites not only different philosophies and ideas about the world, but different practices for growth and development as well.

evolution meanders more than it progresses. But over the long haul, evolution has a broad telos, a broad direction, which is particularly obvious with increasing differentiation—an atom to an amoeba to an ape!