Quotes about Growth

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

A step towards love is a mile towards joy.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.

It is useless endeavor to fight the ego in the open; like a wounded hydra, it produces two heads for every one cut off. We must not indulge in self-scrutinization; we must not concentrate upon the problem of egocentricity. The way to purify the self is to avoid dwelling upon the self and to concentrate upon the task.