Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.
Helen OyeyemiTags: growing grow things-grow
We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.
Richard PuzTags: growing-up growing living-life farming corn
And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as looking out for himself and watching his tongue and not saying the wrong thing, the thing that might get him killed. About the dignity of the lost, about losing, and how it cleansed the soul to accept defeat, and about letting go, avoiding the trap of holding on too tightly to what you wanted, and about abandonment in general, and in particular fatherlesness, the lessness of fathers, the lessness of the fatherless, and the best defenses of those who are less against those who are more: inwardness, forethought, cunning, humility and good peripheral vision. The many lessons of lessness. The lessening from which growing could begin.
Salman RushdieThere were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the stop button at just one moment to stop everything that came after. I had so many If Onlys, but each place I thought to stop meant missing something that came later. I needed it all, in the end, to make my own story find its finish.
Sarah DessenTags: acceptance story growing regret what-if experiences go-back if-only missing-something do-over turn-back-time
Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of twenty—the world of the elderly—thrown up in such black outline upon what we are; upon the reality; the moors and Byron; the sea and the lighthouse; the sheep’s jaw with the yellow teeth in it; upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable—“I am what I am, and intend to be it,” for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself. The Plumers will try to prevent him from making it. Wells and Shaw and the serious sixpenny weeklies will sit on its head.
Virginia WoolfTags: authenticity struggle convention growing
God helps them that help themselves.” When you begin to help yourself, which means to make the best of what is in yourself, you begin to attract to yourself more and more of those helpful things that may exist all about you. In other words, constructive forces attract constructive forces; positive forces attract positive forces. A growing mind attracts elements and forces that help to promote growth, and people who are determined to make more and more of themselves, are drawn more and more into circumstances through which they will find the opportunity to make more of themselves. And this law works not only in connection with the external world, but also the internal world. When you begin to make a positive determined use of those powers in yourself that are already in positive action, you draw forth into action powers within you that have been dormant, and as this process continues, you will find that you will accumulate volume, capacity and power in your mental world, until you finally become a mental giant.
Christian D. LarsonTags: world mind positive action growth best growing help internal process capacity determined mental elements powers attract promote external forces constructive dormant
When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. " People get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them, " he said. At age forty-five, Jobs was now about to get out of his groove.
Walter IsaacsonTags: innovation growing musing
And we shall all carry on with our hearts set on the next best thing...because we know how we have lived and understand what we have lost, and aren’t willing to lose so much the second time through.
Isabel Aanya LeighTags: life inspirational growing keep-on-going moving-on-advice llife-lessons the-next-best-thing
Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.
Ricky MayeTags: wisdom life spiritual jesus spirituality christian growth quote wise walking growing quotes help discipleship
Being a Christian is about living an inviting example.
Ricky MayeTags: wisdom purpose faith jesus self-help christian growth quote cross growing quotes example inpsirational-quote
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