Quotes About Growth

Every structure is to be thought of as a particular form of equilibrium, more or less stable within its restricted field and losing its stability on reaching the limits of the field.

Things changed. Things that defined your life altered and shifted while you weren't paying attention. Sometimes you didn't even notice until you missed them.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

To be adult is to be alone.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

But as Ram Dass once said, you know, if you think you're enlightened, go spend a weekend with your parents.

51st and 52nd Streets for $700,000 in 1879—the year

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some new little sprig grafted on.

Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in a while something clicked.

He was beginning to see how having a teenager might be the equivalent of having a bad class in permanent session.

migrants bring economic benefits to a country, including for its workers in terms of more jobs and higher economic growth,

creative destruction" as Schumpeter called it—

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

I keep thinking what a lot I missed out on through being so introverted. I am not referring to sex but all the other things. Being sociable, I suppose.)

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.

A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love. A community is alive when it is poor and its members feel they have to work together and remain united, if only to ensure that they can all eat tomorrow!

A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.