Quotes about Growth
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
— DH Lawrence
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
— Teresa of Avila
In God's garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit...
— Rick Warren
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.
— St. John Chrysostom
Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.
— Alan Redpath
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
— Virginia Woolf
I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
— Wendell Berry
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
— Henry Ward Beecher
This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
— William Wordsworth
Even a broken tree can bear fruit
— Rick Warren