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Quotes About Growth

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
~ Mary Karr
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
~ Pema Chodron
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
~ Maria Montessori
Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.
~ Gautama Buddha
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.
~ Joseph Stowell
One of kindness and integrity. I know I fail constantly, but I'm working towards being a reliable and worthy contributor to the world.
~ Caitlin Stasey
I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.
~ Richard Rohr
Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.
~ Rumi
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way.
~ Robert Alan Aurthur
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
~ Glen Duncan
Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
~ Laurence J. Peter
Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
~ Gautama Buddha
Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.
~ Kristin Cashore
A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
~ Jack Kornfield
Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.
~ Jean Maalouf
kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.
~ Mary Louisa Molesworth
If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.
~ Nhat Hanh
The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.
~ Mencius
I'ma forgive all the people that took my kindness as weakness. I'ma forgive anyone who never hit me back. I'ma forgive all ya'll. I won't forget.
~ Behdad Sami
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
~ Sophie Swetchine
My kindness is the old version of my life, I have grown up.
~ M.F. Moonzajer