"We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished."
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"Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many."
"By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still."
"Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence."
"Life is about growing and evolving. I feel like my life has been in stages, and the stages I went through when I was younger allowed me to grow into the man I am today."
"Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal."
"I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through."
"I'm growing older, but not up."
"We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God."
"The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill."
"Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear."
"Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation."
"Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others."
"I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution."
"Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow."
"Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent."
"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."
"Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is."
"An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor."
"Don't waste your youth growing up."
"When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing."