~ We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't. ~
~ We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. ~
~ All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ~
~ All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. ~
~ Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness ~
~ Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. ~
~ Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ~
~ I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times. ~
~ Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. ~
~ Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. ~