Quotes About Growth

We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth.

What Beka recognized in herself as 'change' began, as far as she could remember, the day she decided to stop lying.

If you have strength of character, you can use that as fuel to not only be a survivor but to transcend simply being a survivor, use an internal alchemy to turn something rotten and horrible into gold.

You must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Father said conflict develops the character

We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet.

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.

If you always do the easy and comfortable thing, life ends up being difficult and uncomfortable. If you do the difficult and uncomfortable thing, however, life ends up being easy and comfortable.

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

It takes a lifetime of practice to achieve a spiritually sound state of imperfection.

Before enlightenment — chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment — chop wood, carry water.

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms

When you reach the top, keep climbing.

Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.

A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

For another thing, there's so much they don't know. And not knowing things makes them know lots of other things grownups can't know. That sounds confusing and it is. But look at it this way. Every time you teach a kid something, you teach him a hundred things that are impossible because that one thing is so. By the time we grow up, our world is so hedged around by impossibilities that it's a wonder we ever try anything new.

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

The way comes about as we walk it.

Diperlukan waktu hanya sepuluh tahun untuk menanam dan memelihara sebatang pohon, tapi memerlukan waktu paling sedikit 100 tahun untuk membentuk sebuah karakter jiwa.

When you're born prematurely, you want to live more quickly than other people. The good, the bad, everything!

REMEMBER THAT FAILURE IS AN EVENT , NOT A PERSON..