Growth Quotes

"The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful" "It is necessary to unlearn what we have learned because there is no substitute for experience" "Wisdom comes from suffering." "Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall." "The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture" "I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake." "Sometimes we don't know what we're capable of until we get pushed and we have to push back" "Character develops itself in the stream of life" "If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be " "My past is everything I failed to be." "Luck doesn't change, only our perspective of it does." "The cut worm forgives the plow " "I told it not, my wrath did grow " "The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it." "Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain." "The burned hand teaches best" "Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder" "Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake." "We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness." "I’d rather have a lot of questions than a lot of answers"