"Growth is often a painful process."
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"It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality."
"If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly."
"It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth"
"Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes."
"In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself."
"The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself."
"The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids."
"As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical."
"Example is leadership."
"But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing."
"The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth."
"Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen."
"O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far."
"Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems."
"Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely."
"We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor"
"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom"
"As I live in awareness of, growth in, and gratitude for mercy, my life will bring glory to Him"
"The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may."