#Growth

"The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand."

"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."

"Life is now in session. Are you present?"

"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."

"It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity."

"Flowers are aromatic and romantic, and they grow exactly the way love does—with plenty of light, and watered with affection."

"The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply."

"A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else."

"Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be."

"Some people grow vegetables by day, but I grow shadows by night. Right now my only customer is the US government, but the profit is unbelievable."

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life."

"When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person."

"Love is a process, either growing or shrinking, but never stagnant. My love for you was David, and now it is Goliath. Also, my love for you was Goliath, and now it is David."

"The striving of humanity for knowledge and truth [can] not be suppressed. The growth of the spirit [is]an essential part of Creation; it was planned like the growth of the body, of the plants and animals and people - every living thing that God had created."

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

"In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another."