#growth

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. ↗

— Charlotte M. Mason

#education #growth #thought #education

If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. ↗

— Russell Page

#green-thumb #growth #understanding #verdant #education

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won’t happen if you compromise away the entire process. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#individuality #journey #process #education

The two most challenging tasks a man can face in life is education of the heart and education of the child-every other task he contemplates in life before him pales in comparison to those two. On this path of absolute uncertainty, the descending heart will permiate the education of the mind... An initiation rite for young heart. An initiation rite for young men. ↗

— Adam Kovacevic

#spiritual-growth #education

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. ↗

— George Boole

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Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses. ↗

— Phil Bredesen

#businesses #companies #continuing #economic #economic growth

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces. ↗

— Earl Browder

#back #because #become #behind #capitalist

You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician. ↗

— Lita Ford

#growth #hope #i #learn #musician

The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#emotions #energy-healing #enlightenment #god #higher-self

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

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