Quotes about Growth

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Love is like a river, never ending as it flows, but gets greater with time!

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

The West is different than where we came from. It's a land that demands strength of people. A land that tests courage. With the muscles in our backs and the brains in our heads, we can do whatever we want out here, and I intend to accept that challenge and grow strong enough to belong in this wild and rich land.

Nothing significant in the kingdom of God happens unless death occurs.

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.