As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Grace has been defined as the outward expression
of the inward harmony of the soul.
- William Hazlitt
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
The less I take the difficulties of my life as personal affront,
and the more I use them as an opportunity to learn and grow...
the easier I sleep at night.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
I love those who can smile in trouble,
who can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,
but it sure heats up the blood.
- Elizabeth Ashley
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,
that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
- John Lennon
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
Overcome obstacles - grow and bloom anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't go through life - grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best.
- William Arthur Ward
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller
This country, with its institutions,
belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,
they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,
or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.
We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly.
We grow partially. We are relative.
We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
- Anais Nin
A loving relationship is one in which
the loved one is free to be himself -
to laugh with me, but never at me;
to cry with me, but never because of me;
to love life, to love himself,
to love being loved.
Such a relationship is based upon freedom
and can never grow in a jealous heart.
- Leo F. Buscaglia
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Today's acorns grow into the oak trees of thirty years hence.
But what acorns are we sowing today?
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of prejudice or hatred would grow into.
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of pollution can become.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower
wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln
One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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