Quotes about Growth

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.

I'll start with the small things

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

Lord, keep my thoughts green! That is something one should say over and over again.