Quotes about Growth

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Nothing is so conducive to spiritual growth as this capacity for logical and accurate analysis of everything that happens to us.

What stands in the way is the way.

The obstacle is the way.

Some people will say that memory fades away as the years pass. Of course it does if you don't exercise it or aren't very bright to begin with. -- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.

If you have a garden in your library, nothing will fail

Potential has a shelf life.

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.

I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.

We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

There had been something willed about it though, his ignorance. Or not willed, exactly: structured. He'd grown up in walled spaces, and then he had become one. He had shut things out.