Quotes About Growth

The universe has been expanding for over thirteen billion years, and we never stop being invited to expand along with it.

There are always two risks. There's the risk of not trying something new, and there's the risk of not trying it. . . . Either way, there's risk. And sometimes stepping out and trying something new is actually the less risky thing to do.

You need to evade every influence that tends to keep you frozen in the past.

Imagine the people you fear and dislike as pivotal characters in a fascinating and ultimately redemptive plot that will take years or even lifetimes for the Divine to elaborate.

We embraced the second two affirmations. "I am good at art, I am learning" became the final words to any argument, the punch line of any joke, and our collective mantra.

He told them a story—"the little baby in the cradle," as a student would call it. "He would tell us that one day we might say the baby would be a teacher. Maybe the next day we'd say the baby would be a doctor. And one day we might say the baby—any baby—might grow up to be President of the United States.

There are no perfect relationships. There are no perfect partners. Relationships by their very nature are chaotic, eventful, and challenging.

Relationships are messy and there is no way to eliminate the bumps and potholes, but we don't have to make them any more difficult than they already are.

Surrender allows recovering Nice Guys to see each life experience as a gift from the universe to stimulate growth, healing and learning. Instead of asking, Why is this happening to me? the recovering Nice Guy can respond to life's challenges by pondering, What do I need to learn from this situation?

Live and learn, or you don't live long.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it — once you can honestly say, 'I don't know', then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Age does not bring wisdom, Ben, but it does give perspective . . . and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

Time was when I was immune to emotional shocks. But as I get older, I don't get tougher; I get softer.

I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don't civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.

But, whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!

Robert A. Heinlein

English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it. Nobody tried to stop this process, the way some languages are policed and have official limits . . . probably because there never has been, truly, such a thing as 'the King's English'—for 'the King's English' was French. English was in truth a bastard tongue and nobody cared how it grew . . . and it did!—enormously.

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money, to the utter exclusion of all other interests.

the trouble with "lessons from history" is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

That's what I was trying to find out when we were rushed off on this damned safari. They have unusual intestinal flora and it may have something to do with that. But I think it has to do with the fact that they never stop growing.