Quotes About Growth

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

I have been bent and broken but I hope into better shape.

just as she kept her thoughts to herself, I was learning to do the same. This was what growing up was about: HIDE the corpse, DON'T bare your heart, DO make assumptions about the motives of others.

This is my life, I thought...I have exised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mudstained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

I saw that vigil now as necessary, a prerequisite for my insides to harden and cure just like the willow of a cricket bat must cure to be ready for a lifetime of knocks.

There wasn't any point in dwelling in the pain of the past, not when the future could hold suck pleasure.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Whatever is next for me, whatever the story of my life, the roots that must nourish it are here.

Ammachi, when I come to the end of a book and I look up, just four days have passed. But in that time I've lived through three generations and learned more about the world and about myself than I do during a year in school.

Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

Prison," I'd heard Ghosh laughingly tell Adid, "is the best thing for a marriage. If you can't send your spouse, then go yourself. It works wonders.