Quotes About Growth

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

I read because one life isn't enough.

Sometimes life drives you to do entirely new things, things you never believed you could do.

You have given me a thing I could never have imagined, before I knew you. It's like I had the word "book," and you put one in my hands. I had the world "game," and you taught me how to play. I had the word "life," and then you came along and said, "Oh! You mean this.

There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.' " The Chinese engineer smiles. "Good one." " 'When is the next best time? Now.' " "Ah! Okay!" The smile turns real. Until today, he has never planted anything. But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.

A great truth comes over him: Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.

It's so simple," she says. "So obvious. Exponential growth inside a finite system leads to collapse. But people don't see it. So the authority of people is bankrupt.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

Richard Reeves

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Life gives you all the koans you need.

We anguish over more school facilities and ignore the unlimited classroom that is our city.

Your imagination must, to some extent, be found in a realm beyond reason because it begins with imagining a future reality: the self that you might become.

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The world champion rider in any event was at one time a beginner

the more that sin is seen, the more it is hated, and therefore it is less. Dust particles are in a room before the sun shines, but they only appear then.

Nay, [2] after conversion we need bruising, that (1) reeds may know themselves to be reeds, and not oaks; even reeds need bruising, by reason of the remainder of pride in our nature, and to let us see that we live by mercy. And (2) that weaker Christians may not be too much discouraged when they see the stronger shaken and bruised.