Growth

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

"Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness."

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

"In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again."

"Yes! There will be growth in the spring!"

"You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them."

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."

"A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully."

"Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself."

"The growth of one blesses all. I am committed to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively."

"Self growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no higher investment."

"What you dream, you can grow."

"Man seems the only growth that dwindles here."

"Growth is just awareness of more and more."

"Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed."

"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."

"People find it easy to justify their frustration in the struggle to manipulate others, but find it hard to justify the struggle for their own growth."

"Having a sincere desire to want growth does not mean at that point you are committing yourself to growth."

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

"Whenever we see a growing entity, whether it be a population, a corporation, a bank account, a rumor, an epidemic, or sales of a new product, we look for the reinforcing loops that are driving it and for the balancing loops that ultimately will constrain it. We know those balancing loops are there, even if they are not yet dominating the system's behavior, because no real physical system can grow forever. [...] An economy can be constrained by physical capital or monetary capital or labor or markets or management or resources or pollution."

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

"Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength."

"'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd."

"Later in the afternoon I took a walk to the grocery store, wondering what might cause a woman to grow to such proportions. I think it must be terribly lonely stand seventy-five feet tall. You'dhave no irvacy and every bowel movement would evacuate entire cities. What would you eat? A roast chicken would be the size of a peanut. You might put away five dozen but leave with the feeling you were only snacking."

"Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow."

""Ay," quoth my uncle Gloucester, "Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace:" And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast, Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste."

"O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far."

"I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things."

"The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God."

"We fight not for ourselves but for growth, growth that goes on for ever. To-morrow, whether we live or die, growth will conquer through us. That is the law of the spirit for evermore. To grow according to the will of God! To grow out of these cracks and crannies, out of these shadows and darknesses, into greatness and the light! Greater," he said, speaking with slow deliberation, "greater, my Brothers! And then-still greater. To grow and again-to grow. To grow at last into the fellowship and understanding of God. Growing. . . . Till the earth is no more than a footstool. … Till the spirit shall have driven fear into nothingness, and spread. … " He swung his arms heavenward — "There!""

"Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind; how the observation of last year seems childish, superficial; how this year — even this week — even with this new phrase — it seems to us that we have grown to a new maturity. It may be a fallacious persuasion, but at least it is stimulating, and so long as it persists, one does not stagnate."

"Teach me, by this stupendous scaffolding, Creation's golden steps, to climb to Thee."

"What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets; May learn a thousand things, not twice the same."

"Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne Lead gradual."

"Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked."

"The lofty oak from a small acorn grows."

"It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it falls and die that night— It was the plant and flower of Light."

"Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain."

"Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend."

"And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay."

"Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into shape."

""Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger than the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous…. He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself … by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis."

"Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli."

"Fungino genere est: capite se totum tegit."

"Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris. Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos, Si in obserendo possint interfieri."

"Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn. Es wächst der Mensch mit seinen grössern Zwecken."

"Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping."

"Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch Till the white-wing'd reapers come."

"Lambendo effingere."

"And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man."