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"The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more."
"Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over."
"Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates."
"Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known."
"The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth."
"[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be."
"There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth."
"The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life."
"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization."
"It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things."
"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth."
"I was very young when I was in RNBDJ and that journey had enabled me as an actor. I am not very confident of my growth as an actor but I am very confident of my growth as a person."
"Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved."
"Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible."
"To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."
"Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond."
"The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement."
"Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult."
"It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first."
"The burned hand teaches best."
