Quotes about Growth
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
— Helen Keller
When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.
— Henri Nouwen
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
— Henri Matisse
We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still. The trials of mortality may increase in intensity, yet for us, darkness need not increase if we focus our eyes more singly on the light that streams down on us as we follow the Master. He will lead us and help us along the path that leads upward to the home for which we yearn.
— Henry B. Eyring
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
— Henry David Thoreau
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
— Henry David Thoreau
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his souls estate.
— Henry David Thoreau
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
— Henry David Thoreau
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.
— Henry David Thoreau
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
— Henry David Thoreau
To reget deeply is to live afresh.
— Henry David Thoreau