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Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
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To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
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
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
Overcome obstacles - grow and bloom anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Don't go through life - grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
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
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,
but it sure heats up the blood.
- Elizabeth Ashley
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
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
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
- John Lennon
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
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
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
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
I love those who can smile in trouble,
who can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
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
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
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
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Forgiveness is the cleansing fire
that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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