Grow
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground — as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
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