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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.
— Fred Craddock
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
— Frederick Douglass
If we are going to keep on growing, we must keep on risking failure throughout our lives. When
— Brennan Manning
Each moment of our existence, we are either growing into more or retreating into less.
— Brennan Manning
The second journey begins when we know we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the morning program.
— Brennan Manning
I am constantly surprised at how I keep taking the gifts God has given me - my health, my intellectual and emotional gifts - and keep using them to impress people, receive affirmation and praise, and compete for rewards, instead of developing them for the glory of God.
— Henri Nouwen
The main problem of service is to be the way without being "in the way." And if there are any tools, techniques and skills to be learned they are primarily to plow the field, to cut the weeds and to clip the branches, that is, to take away the obstacles for real growth and development.
— Henri Nouwen
Because life is very small, you can never see it happening. Have you ever seen a tree actually grow? Can you see a child grow? Growth is too gentle, too tender. Life is basically hidden.
— Henri Nouwen
When we look at teaching in terms of hospitality, we can say that the teacher is called upon to create for his students a free and fearless space where mental and emotional development can take place.
— Henri Nouwen
I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.
— Henry David Thoreau