Grow
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
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.
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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.
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.
