Quotes about Growth
When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.
— DH Lawrence
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every moment is travel - if understood.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
— Bruce Lee
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on
— John Stott
The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.
— Charles Swindoll
The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day
— Corrie Ten Boom
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
— Charles Dickens
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
— John Bunyan
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
— Virginia Woolf
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.
— Richard Sibbes