Quotes About Growth

When transcendence of our personal history takes precedence over intimacy with our personal history, spiritual bypassing is inevitable. To not be intimate with our past—to not be deeply and thoroughly acquainted with our conditioning and its originating factors—keeps it undigested and unintegrated and therefore very much present

Loss is the price we pay for progress," she said. "Only as we leave things behind do we move forward.

Perhaps the one absolute essential to growing up well is being tough enough," Susan said. "Like us," I said.

A week ago, Norman would never have dared. But this wasn't a week ago, it was now, and things were different. It was now, and he had to face the truth.

Why stay we on earth except to grow?

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

A man's reach should exceed his grasp

You'll love me yet!--and I can tarry Your love's protracted growing: June reared that bunch of flowers you carry, From seeds of April's sowing. I plant a heartful now: some seed At least is sure to strike, And yield--what you'll not pluck indeed, Not love, but, may be, like. You'll look at least on love's remains, A grave's one violet: Your look?--that pays a thousand pains. What's death? You'll love me yet!

Grow old along with me.....the Best is yet to be.....The Last of life---for which the First was made.

dark, difficult enough the human sphere, yet eyes grow sharp by use

Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).

At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there.

She didn't want to look ahead to the days and the months and the years with him. Here, now, in this room, it was all right, but later? Again, time couldn't stop. And she saw at last that time only stopped when you were dead...Time was always moving and nothing could stay the same, everything was always changing, for better or for worse. And you had to change with time, with the seasons and the years, or you would be dead too, although your heart would continue to beat.

Time had weight. The weight was growing.

But adversity has a way of strengthening. If it doesn't kill you, you learn things.

The arrows. What they mean is, you control who you are by moving forward, never back; you move forward. That's what I do. That's what we're going to do.

people over the years

Home is where your mistakes can be seen in context.

Look forward, not back. Always move forward.

Primul pas spre iertare este s? recuno?ti c? e?ti furios ?i acesta poate fi cel mai dificil pas. Prima persoan? pe care iertarea o schimb? este chiar persoana care iart?.

Mahan held that a nation must expand or decline—for it was impossible for a nation to hold its own while standing still.

In 1945, there were 20,000 mosques in Turkey; in 1985, 72,000, and that number has since risen steadily, out of proportion to the population.

Lincoln had risen to this pinnacle through migration, self-education, and hard work.

A better age would have to follow.