Quotes about Growth
For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins.
— Victor Hugo
Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
— Victor Hugo
There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.
— Victor Hugo
There are for each of us several parallelisms between our intelligence, our habits, and our character, which develop without a break, and break only in the great disturbances of life.
— Victor Hugo
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
— Victor Hugo
People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
— Victor Hugo
The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed there, as in a dark chamber.
— Victor Hugo
The mind is a garden
— Victor Hugo
Errors make excellent projectiles.
— Victor Hugo
He had but one word for both these kinds of toil; he called them gardening. The mind is a garden, said he.
— Victor Hugo
To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;
— Victor Hugo
An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to him — his father and his country.
— Victor Hugo