Grow
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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.
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.
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.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.
Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
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