Quotes about Growth

be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.

I'll start with the small things

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

Lord, keep my thoughts green! That is something one should say over and over again.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

You must not go there in too anemic or enervated a condition, if you set a value on coming out of it stronger. I do not consider it a great misfortune for you to be obliged to be a soldier, but rather as a very serious trial from which you will emerge - if you emerge at all - a very great artist.

But if we keep to the positive fact of wanting to produce and to be something, then we can talk over accomplished facts, when it cannot be avoided, without getting angry, even if they might concern, or stand in direct relation with, the Goupils or our family. Besides, these questions are between you and me for a better understanding of the situation, and not out of spite.

Personally I believe that the adversities one meets with in the ordinary course of life do us as much good as harm. The very complaint that makes one ill today, overwhelming one with discouragement, that same thing - once the disease has passed off - gives us the energy to get up and to want to be completely recovered tomorrow.

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.