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If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.
It's good to be incompatible with your partner sometimes. It causes your souls to stretch & grow - the point of a soul mate!
The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd_x000D__x000D_Than that which withering on the virgin thorn_x000D__x000D_Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
By cool Siloam's shady rill_x000D__x000D_How sweet the lily grows!_x000D__x000D_How sweet the breath beneath the hill_x000D__x000D_Of Sharon's dewy rose!
If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.
Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.
Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing.
This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.
I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.
Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
I grow more intense as I age.
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and flowers are not always in season, but philosophy we have always with us. It is a crop which we can grow and reap at all times and in all places and it has its own value and brings its own satisfaction.
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
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