Quotes about Development

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Progress - the stride of God!

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few: Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

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!