You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.
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You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.
But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can
It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.
People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of their fathers, continue the work above the abyss and struggle to tame the dread mystery. How? By cultivating a single field, by kissing a woman, by studying a stone, an animal, an idea.
The Gospel never grows old. It applies to every generation alike. We have to make a choice.
Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.
A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.
If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.
During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow. In the same way the shattering experiences of suffering can cause the living water to well up in a human heart.
Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
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