"Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest."
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"Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace."
"Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth."
"Real improvement is of slow growth only."
"In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up."
"It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma."
"Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down."
"I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy."
"With growth comes change."
"Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth."
"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor."
"A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths."
"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."
"All growth is a leap in the dark."
"Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal."
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile."
"Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth"
"Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can."
"Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting."
"Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time."