Quotes About Growth

just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers so you must attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

G.U.R.U - Gee, you are you!

If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep loving the same sad small life.

If you keep telling the same sad, small story, you will keep living the same sad, small life.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Now the thing about having a baby — and I can't be the first person to have noticed this — is that thereafter you have it.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

the real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old.

You are your own nearest environment, so begin with yourself.

Sometimes women who aren't perfect are more interesting; they've done more, or learned something.

Like men, some grow best in company, striving to outdo the rest. Others need to grow their own way, though it may be lonely. Both have value.

The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.

Kids need to learn that you need to feel bad sometimes. We learn through experience, and we learn especially through bad experiences.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

If only we could know what was going on in a baby's mind while observing him in action we could certainly understand everything there is to psychology.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.