#growth

The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance. ↗

— Anne Rice

#growth

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#community #talk #growth

I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear. ↗

— Tupac Shakur

#growth

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#growth #soul #growth

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#personal-growth #superiority #women #growth

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#growth

Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#aspect #child #development #every #experience

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#appear #cedar #colours #composed #covered

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#coming #communication #does #growth #i

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you,” and I was now living that mantra. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#good-people #growing-up #inspirational #learning #lessons