Growth Quotes - Page 5

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.

The details of my thoughts bled into thin pieces of paper, spread across miles to touch hearts of the people; who've lost their truest homes- themselves.

A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that ‘other’ is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

Greatness comes from the inside and once you believe you have it, it's yours to share with the world.

You can curse the moon
Curse the day your’re born
But the pilot of your plane is you
We’re all in this world, by a greater plan
Look up, lift your wings, Because you can
The Light Said (The First Song album)

The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly.

Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.

Hope floats but effort propels.

My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.

I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went.

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Tomorrow when you wake up, be aware of how you dress your thoughts and emotions, because at the end of the day no matter what you look like, if your inner being isn't beautiful, neither are you.

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death]

You must embrace change before change erases you.

Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing", said the Butterfly.

Small but growing is better than big and stuck.

Somewhere along the journey i lost myself; i learnt to be who they told me to be, i lived that girl for decades until their truth showed me; the words they were preaching didnt match the the steps they were walking, so i was done with their opinion and went on my unique way.