Quotes about Growth

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

Maybe he'll be different from who he was and always is.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them - Einstein

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

Life is suffering--and yet.

The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.