Quotes about Growth
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Encourage anyone who is trying to improve mentally, physically, or spiritually.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
But instead of being con-formed to the world, Christians are to be changed from within to be increasingly like Jesus Christ.
— James Montgomery Boice
I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I just enjoyed bar mitzvahs as a kid, and there was this company in the Detroit area where I grew up, and I think they recruited me as a party dancer - you know, like, you dance around and pass out glow sticks. I quickly rose in the ranks and, within a year, became an emcee, which was kind of unheard of.
— James Wolk
In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
— Carl Jung
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.
— Marianne Williamson
The growing role of technology and professional courses in the universities must be tapped to encourage more women to take up the courses and to contribute to the economic growth.
— Tamilisai Soundararajan
You look back and reflect and there are things you could do better - even when there's been an 'experience that was unjust.
— Chris Hughton