Growth Quotes

"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace until it's built." "Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest" "The doors of wisdom are never shut" "When you're finished changing, you're finished" "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be " "I am not jealous of what came before me" "The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on" "I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees." "You know how it is in love, how like a patient tree the heart grows." "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child" "Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed" "Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities" "In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism." "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen" "If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn" "We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out" "Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down" "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." "Experience teaches only the teachable." "There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."