Quotes about Growth

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

Let God leave us! Let us grow up. Let us walk forward on our own. Because we need the silence of the holy: we need the sacred and equally we need its maddening silence. And in the curious privacy and relief of that silence we can go out into the chaos and commit a thousand acts of minor and gleeful splendor all our own. If it's our tragedy to be left by God, then let it also be our luck.

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.