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'Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.' And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast, Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.

O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Or their dead selves to higher things.

The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't.

Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.