Growth Quotes
Sunday, November 6th, 2011
She snatched off the hat with stars on it. It wasn’t a bad hat, for show, although the stars made is look like a toy. But it was never her hat. It couldn’t be…
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Tags: Creativity, Growth, Self Esteem
Posted in Terry Pratchett | Comments Off on The only hat worth wearing was the one you made for yourself
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Art is the expression of the self; the more complicated and restrictive a method is, the less opportunity there is for expression of one’s original sense of freedom. The techniques, although they play an important role in the earlier stage, should not be…
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Tags: Creativity, Growth, Limitations
Posted in Bruce Lee | Comments Off on If we cling to (techniques) we will become bound by their limitations
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Silence spread around Tiffany, a living silence, while the sheep danced with their lambs and the world turned.
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see…
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Tags: Experience, Growth
Posted in Terry Pratchett | Comments Off on Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving
Sunday, August 14th, 2011
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
Folly is the cloke of knavery.
Shame is Pride’s cloke…
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Tags: Growth, Independence
Posted in William Blake | Comments Off on No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived…
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Tags: Awareness, Growth, Truth
Posted in Ralph Waldo Emerson | Comments Off on Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose are not
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Their sense of community had come apart long before Kathy’s death, but for him, Kathy’s dying had been the final stage of the story collection they’d started when they all first came together in the early seventies.
Most of them still…
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Tags: Change, Growth, Inspiration
Posted in Charles de Lint | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Notice I did not say “kill” the dragon. To kill the dragon implies stumbling through our challenges using any available force. This week of vigils presents a chance to consider both how we negotiate the process, as…
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Tags: Challenges, Dragon, Growth
Posted in Noela N. Evans | 2 Comments »
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less …
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Tags: Growth, Pain, Understanding
Posted in Kahlil Gibran | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 9th, 2009
There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of…
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Tags: Change, Growth, Reading, Walden
Posted in Henry David Thoreau | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
A world made
is not a world of born-pity poor flesh
and trees,poor stars and stones,but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical…
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Tags: Explore, Growth
Posted in e. e. Cummings | Comments Off on there’s a hell of a good universe next door;let’s go
Saturday, July 25th, 2009
I have been digging my potatoes, if anybody cares to know it. I planted them in what are called “Early Rose,”—the rows a little less than three feet apart; but the vines came to an early close in the drought. Digging potatoes is a pleasant, soothing occupation, but not poetical. It is good for the…
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Tags: Change, Gardening, Growth, Individuality
Posted in Charles Dudley Warner | Comments Off on What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Each mile I travel only means
The more I have to go.
What’s wrong with wanting more?
If you can fly – then soar!
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Tags: Growth, Learning
Posted in Isaac Singer, Movie Quotes | 1 Comment »