Quotes about Development

One step and then another, and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another, and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another, and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another, and the deepest snow is laid.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

How easy it is to love a child, how hard to love what a child turns into!

But just improving each day, that's just the ultimate goal from now until I'm no longer on this earth.

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

Little by little, one travels far.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.