Growth Process Quotes

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.

It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.

You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.

Growth is a painful process.

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

Every chapter in life helps you move forward.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Unlike China's growth story, which has been built on the strategy of creating excess supply, the Indian growth story has been built on the strategy of responding to incentives generated by excess demand. Which is why a certain degree of inflation is built into the Indian growth process.

You do grow, and you learn from your experiences, and that's obviously what happened to me.

I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes the process moves forward at a rapid pace in a short amount of time - or moves backwards. And you're like, "Man, I thought I had made so much progress, and now all of a sudden, I'm 10 steps further behind than when I started."

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

How can the seed know that by dying in the soil it will become a great tree? It will not be there to witness the happening. How can the seed know that one day, if it dies, there will be great foliage, green leaves, great branches, and flowers and fruits? How can the seed know? The seed will not be there. The seed has to disappear before it can happen. The seed has never met the tree. The seed has to disappear and die. Only very few people have that much courage. It really needs guts to discover truth. You will die as yourself. You will certainly be born.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

The process of birth and the growth of human body into a complicated system are still a marvel for me.

Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.

You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.

What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.