Quotes about Growth

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

You are not yet able to serve men, how can you serve spirits?

Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing — there's nothing to be done for such people.

We all have two lives, your second one begins when you realize you've only got one.

I was not born with wisdom. I love the ancient teachings and have worked hard to attain to their level.

Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison.

I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.

If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted.