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Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.
-Chinese Proverb
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Climb mountains to see lowlands.
-Chinese Proverb
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When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead.
-Japanese Proverb
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
-Edward Abbey
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
-Matthew Arnold
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Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
-Karl Baker
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We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
-Ruth Benedict
An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict, by Margaret Mead, 1959.
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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
-Eric Berne
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
-Elizabeth Bowen
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We're all fools...all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
-Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man, No Particular Night or Morning, 1951
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Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.
-Rupert Brooke
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In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.
-Les Brown
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All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.
-Les Brown
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Love dies only when growth stops.
-Pearl Buck
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
-Pearl Buck
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Don't go through life, grow through life.
-Eric Butterworth
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Every winner has scars.
-Herbert N. Casson
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-Edgar Cayce
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
-Hare Charles
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
-Noam Chomsky
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.
-Frank A. Clark
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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
-Confucius
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Books about Growth
