Grow
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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.
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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.
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
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.
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.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
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