Quotes About Growth

Dwindle, peak, and pine.

He wears the roseOf youth upon him.

These trees shall be my books.

Grow like savages—as soldiers will,That nothing do but meditate on blood.

I am slow of study.

Now my soul hath elbow-room.

We cannot all be masters.

More matter for a May morning.

Then comes in the sweet o' the year.

Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;And this our life exempt from public haunt,Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

There are many lives in a lifetime.

know that the people who live the longest and the richest lives are looking ahead and not behind.

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

I learn more from books than from people

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

it's always a good time to change your mind when to do so will widen your heart.

To do it artificially, to try to hype myself into being a better writer by doggedly reading better literature, is also a mistake. I learn to use the language by the pleasures it gives me when I am able to swim in it or maneuver in it or interchange in it with the people around me.