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Growth |
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| “The strongest principle of growth lies in
human choice.” |
| -- George Eliot |
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| "Difficulties are meant to rouse, not
discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." |
| -- William Ellery Channing |
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| "There's nothing noble in being superior
to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former
self." |
| -- Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961),
American writer, journalist |
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| "As long as we are persistence in our
pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot
choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its
own time." |
| -- Denis Waitley |
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"The strongest principle of growth
lies in human choice." |
| -- George Eliot (1819-80), British writer |
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| "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor
that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing." |
| -- William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939), Irish writer |
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| "It takes courage to grow up and turn out
to be who you really are." |
| -- E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings (1894-1962),
American writer |
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| "What is a pearl but growth oyster style
for the oyster. For man, the product and gem of growth is character,
the core of man's being. Like the pearl, character is born no less
of the forces of nature, and is no less brilliant, if only freed
from its shell." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterrra
(1952-2002), American writer |
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| "There are no such things as limits to growth, because there
are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and
wonder." |
| -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.
1911), 40th US President, Republican |
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| "A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin
as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of
earth." |
| -- Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.),
Legendary Chinese philosopher |
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| "Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move
upward, but expands outward, in all directions." |
| -- Russell G. Alexander (b.
1954), Father, Human Being, Recovering Philosopher |
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| "Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." |
| -- Karen Kaiser Clark |
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| "Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as
apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain." |
| -- John Dryden (1631-1700),
English writer, poet laureate |
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| "If every day is an awakening, you will
never grow old. You will just keep growing." |
| -- Gail Sheehy |
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| “The art of living lies less in eliminating
our troubles than in growing with them.” |
| --
Bernard M. Baruch |
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| "Growth is the only evidence of life." |
| -- Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-90),
Theologian |
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| "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure
nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are
growing." |
| -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish
writer |
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| “Books...are
like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow
out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages
of development.” |
| -- Dorothy L. Sayers |
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| "Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth
can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love." |
| -- Dr. M. Scott Peck |
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| "You've got to do your own growing, no
matter how tall your grandfather was." |
| -- Irish Proverb |
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| "Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody
wants to grow." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) |
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| "People grow through experience if they
meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is
built." |
| -- Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| "All growth depends upon activity. There
is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and
effort means work." |
| -- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933) |
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| "Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths.
No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been
married a quarter of a century." |
| -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), American author, humorist |
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| "There
was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay
more for remaining the same." |
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-- Norman Mailer, American novelist |
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| "When
we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we
become automatons. We cease to grow." |
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-- Anais Nin, American writer |
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| "We teach people how to remember, we never
teach them how to grow." |
| -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) |
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| "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we
don't grow, we aren't really living." |
| -- Gail Sheehy |
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"I
do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was
yesterday." |
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--
Abraham Lincoln |
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"Now I see the secret of the making of the
best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the
earth." |
| -- Walt Whitman |
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| "Grown-ups never understand anything for
themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever
explaining things to them." |
| -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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| "The rings
may not be visible, but the human grows from the inside like a tree.
The new growth is always soft and meets a need within. With time the
growth hardens, and serves as a foundation to support new growth.
The growth continues season after season till the person is felled
by circumstance. |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterrra
(1952-2002), American writer |
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| "Our minds thus grow in spots; and like
grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as
possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of
our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can." |
| -- James Truslow Adams (1878-1949), American
historian |
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| "To live content with small means, to seek
elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to
be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard,
think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and
birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully,
do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the
spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common,
this is to be my symphony." |
| -- William Henry Channing |
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| "In studying the history of the human mind
one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the
mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each
step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One
could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up
even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to
introduce a new idea!" |
| -- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) |
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