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There will be growth in the spring! ~ "Chance" in <i><a href="/wiki/Being_There" title="Being There">Being There</a></i> </figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth" class="extiw" title="w:Growth">Growth</a></b> refers to an increase in some quantity over time. The quantity can be physical (e.g., growth in height, growth in an amount of money) or qualitative (e.g., a system becoming more complex, an organism becoming more mature). The term is often applied to concepts involving self-help, when individuals or a groups attempt economic, intellectual or emotional improvement. A basis for such growth is often self-reliance, public knowledge or groups where people with similar problems or interests join together. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Growth&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="A-L">A-L</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Growth&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: A-L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Abbey" title="Edward Abbey">Edward Abbey</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Solitaire" class="extiw" title="w:Desert Solitaire">Desert Solitaire</a></i>, "Water", p. 114 (1968).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a> cell. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Abbey" title="Edward Abbey">Edward Abbey</a>, <i>The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West</i>. Plume: New York. 1991. Pg 183.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>In the <a href="/wiki/Garden" class="mw-redirect" title="Garden">garden</a>, growth has it <a href="/wiki/Seasons" title="Seasons">seasons</a>.</b> First comes <a href="/wiki/Spring" class="mw-redirect" title="Spring">spring</a> and <a href="/wiki/Summer" title="Summer">summer</a>, but then we have <a href="/wiki/Fall" class="mw-redirect" title="Fall">fall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Winter" title="Winter">winter</a>. And then we get spring and summer again. <ul><li>"Chance, the gardner" in <i><a href="/wiki/Being_There" title="Being There">Being There</a></i> (1979).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Yes! There will be growth in the spring!</b> <ul><li>"Chance, the gardner" in <i><a href="/wiki/Being_There" title="Being There">Being There</a></i> (1979).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>You cannot <a href="/wiki/Force" title="Force">force</a> <a href="/wiki/Ideas" title="Ideas">ideas</a>. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell" title="Alexander Graham Bell">Alexander Graham Bell</a>, <i>Bell Telephone Talk</i>, Interview with Bell published in <i>How They Succeeded</i> (1901) by Orison Swett Marden, Ch. 2. (1901).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. <ul><li>Attributed to <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Boulding" title="Kenneth Boulding">Kenneth Boulding</a> in United States Congress, House (1973), <i>Energy reorganization act of 1973: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, first session, on H.R. 11510</i>. p. 248</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> is one of continual <a class="mw-selflink selflink">growth</a>, where the <a href="/wiki/Doors" class="mw-redirect" title="Doors">doors</a> and windows of <a href="/wiki/Experience" title="Experience">experience</a> are always open to the <a href="/wiki/Wonder" title="Wonder">wonder</a> and <a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a> that life offers.</b> To love is to risk living fully. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Buscaglia" title="Leo Buscaglia">Leo Buscaglia</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.peopleandpossibilities.com/interview.html">interview with Veronica M. Hay, in <i>A Magazine of People and Possibilities</i> (1998)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julia_Cameron" title="Julia Cameron">Julia Cameron</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artist%27s_Way" class="extiw" title="w:The Artist's Way">The Artist's Way</a></i> (1992).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The growth of one <a href="/wiki/Blessings" title="Blessings">blesses</a> <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a>. I am committed to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julia_Cameron" title="Julia Cameron">Julia Cameron</a>, <i>Blessings</i> (1998).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Self" title="Self">Self</a> growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no higher investment. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Covey" title="Stephen Covey">Stephen Covey</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Habits_Of_Highly_Effective_People" class="extiw" title="w:The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People">The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People</a></i>, p. 62 (1989).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What you <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a>, you can <a href="/wiki/Grow" class="mw-redirect" title="Grow">grow</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Hoffman" title="Alice Hoffman">Alice Hoffman</a> Green Witch (2010)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith" title="Oliver Goldsmith">Oliver Goldsmith</a>, <i>The Traveller</i> (1764), line 126.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Growth is just awareness of more and more. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Goudge" title="Elizabeth Goudge">Elizabeth Goudge</a>, <i>The Scent of Water</i> (1963), Ch. XII.1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Many a <a href="/wiki/Genius" title="Genius">genius</a> has been slow of growth. <a href="/wiki/Oaks" class="mw-redirect" title="Oaks">Oaks</a> that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beauty</a> like a reed.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Henry_Lewes" title="George Henry Lewes">George Henry Lewes</a>, <i>The Spanish Drama</i>, ch. 2 (1846).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Morrow_Lindbergh" title="Anne Morrow Lindbergh">Anne Morrow Lindbergh</a>, <i>The Wave of the Future</i> (1940).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="M-Z">M-Z</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Growth&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: M-Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>People find it easy to justify their frustration in the struggle to manipulate others, but find it hard to justify the struggle for their own growth. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_J._Martin" title="Eugene J. Martin">Eugene J. Martin</a>, <i>Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Having a sincere desire to want growth does not mean at that point you are committing yourself to growth. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_J._Martin" title="Eugene J. Martin">Eugene J. Martin</a>, <i>Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Maslow" title="Abraham Maslow">Abraham Maslow</a>, as quoted in <i>Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization</i> (2007) by Judith Glaser, p. 144.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whenever we see a growing entity, whether it be a population, a corporation, a bank account, a rumor, an epidemic, or sales of a new product, we look for the reinforcing loops that are driving it and for the balancing loops that ultimately will constrain it. We know those balancing loops are there, even if they are not yet dominating the system's behavior, because <b>no real physical system can grow forever</b>. [...] An economy can be constrained by physical capital or monetary capital or labor or markets or management or resources or pollution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donella_Meadows" title="Donella Meadows">Donella Meadows</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Donella_Meadows#Thinking_in_Systems:_A_Primer_(2008)" title="Donella Meadows">Thinking in Systems: A Primer</a></i>, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008, pages 59 (<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781603580557" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 9781603580557</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Growth is the only evidence of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Newman" title="John Henry Newman">John Henry Newman</a>, <i>Apologia pro Vita Sua</i> (1864).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i>An Essay on Man</i> (1733-34), Epistle II, line 136.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd,<br />Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i>An Essay on Man</i> (1733-34), Epistle II, line 178.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Later in the afternoon I took a walk to the grocery store, wondering what might cause a woman to grow to such proportions. I think it must be terribly lonely stand seventy-five feet tall. You'dhave no irvacy and every bowel movement would evacuate entire cities. What would you eat? A roast chicken would be the size of a peanut. You might put away five dozen but leave with the feeling you were only snacking. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Sedaris" title="David Sedaris">David Sedaris</a> <i>Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Gardener, for telling me these news of woe,<br />Pray <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> the plants thou graft'st may never grow. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_II_(play)" title="Richard II (play)">Richard II</a></i> (c. 1595), Act III, scene 4, line 100.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"Ay," quoth my uncle Gloucester,<br />"Small herbs have <a href="/wiki/Grace" title="Grace">grace</a>, great weeds do grow apace:"<br />And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,<br />Because <b>sweet <a href="/wiki/Flowers" title="Flowers">flowers</a> are slow and weeds make haste.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i> (c. 1591), Act II, scene 4, line 12.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O, my lord,<br />You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:<br />The prince my brother hath outgrown me far. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i> (c. 1591), Act III, scene 1, line 102.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I held it <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>, with him who sings<br /> To one clear harp in divers tones,<br /> That <b>men may rise on stepping-stones<br />Of their dead selves to higher things.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam A.H.H.</a></i> (1849), Part I.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The great world's altar stairs<br />That slope through darkness up to <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam A.H.H.</a></i> (1849), LV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We fight not for ourselves but for growth, growth that goes on for ever.</b> To-morrow, whether we live or die, growth will conquer through us. That is the law of the spirit for evermore. To grow according to the will of God! To grow out of these cracks and crannies, out of these shadows and darknesses, into greatness and the light! Greater," he said, speaking with slow deliberation, "greater, my Brothers! And then-still greater. To grow and again-to grow. To grow at last into the fellowship and understanding of God. Growing. . . . Till the earth is no more than a footstool. … Till the spirit shall have driven fear into nothingness, and spread. … " He swung his arms heavenward — "There!" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Food_of_the_Gods_and_How_It_Came_to_Earth" title="The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth">The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth</a></i>, Chapter V : The Giant Leaguer (1904).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.</b> Growth of the soul, growth of the mind; how the observation of last year seems childish, superficial; how this year — even this week — even with this new phrase — it seems to us that we have grown to a new maturity. It may be a fallacious persuasion, but at least it is stimulating, and so long as it persists, one does not stagnate. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West" title="Vita Sackville-West">Vita Sackville-West</a>, <i>Twelve Days</i> (1928) p. 9; part of this appears to have also become paraphrased in the form:</li></ul></li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Growth is exciting; growth is alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>The Greatest Quotations of All-Time</i> (2010) by Anthony St Peter, p. 281.</li></ul></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>Teach me, by this stupendous scaffolding,<br />Creation's golden steps, to climb to Thee. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Young" title="Edward Young">Edward Young</a>, <i>Night Thoughts</i> (1742-1745), Night IX</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"><span id="Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"></span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Growth&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> (1922), p. 344-45.</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up,<br />And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?<br />No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets;<br />May learn a thousand things, not twice the same. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Browning" title="Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a>, <i>A Death in the Desert</i>, line 447.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Treading beneath their feet all visible things,<br />As steps that upwards to their Father's throne<br />Lead gradual. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>, <i>Religious Musings</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked. <ul><li>Deuteronomy, XXXII. 15.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.</b> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Duncombe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lewis Duncombe (page does not exist)">Lewis Duncombe</a>, translation of <i>De Minimis Maxima</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is not growing like a <a href="/wiki/Tree" class="mw-redirect" title="Tree">tree</a><br />In bulk, doth make man better be;<br />Or standing long an <a href="/wiki/Oak" class="mw-redirect" title="Oak">oak</a>, three hundred year,<br />To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:<br /> A lily of a day<br /> Is fairer far in May,<br />Although it falls and die that night—<br />It was the plant and flower of <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">Light</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a>, <i>Pindaric Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Nor deem the irrevocable Past,<br /> As wholly wasted, wholly vain,<br />If, rising on its wrecks, at last<br /> To something nobler we attain.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, <i>Ladder of St. Augustine</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our pleasures and our discontents,<br /> Are rounds by which we may ascend. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, <i>Ladder of St. Augustine</i>, Stanza 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And so all growth that is not towards <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a><br />Is growing to decay. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_MacDonald" title="George MacDonald">George MacDonald</a>, <i>Within and Without</i>, Part I, scene 3.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Arts">Arts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Sciences">sciences</a> are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into shape. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" title="Michel de Montaigne">Michel de Montaigne</a>, <i>Apology for Raimond Sebond</i>, Book II, Chapter XII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger than the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous…. He may lift himself if <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself … by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" title="Michel de Montaigne">Michel de Montaigne</a>, <i>Essays</i>, Book II, Chapter XII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli.</i> <ul><li>Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petronius" title="Petronius">Petronius</a>, <i>Cena</i>, 44.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Fungino genere est: capite se totum tegit. <ul><li>He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plautus" title="Plautus">Plautus</a>, <i>Trinummus</i>, IV. 2. 9.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st<br />Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris.<br />Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos,<br />Si in obserendo possint interfieri.</i> <ul><li>Besides that, when elsewhere the <a href="/wiki/Harvest" title="Harvest">harvest</a> of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plautus" title="Plautus">Plautus</a>, <i>Trinummus</i>, IV. 4. 128.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.<br />Es wächst der Mensch mit seinen grössern Zwecken. <ul><li><b>In a narrow circle the mind contracts<br /> Man grows with his expanded needs.</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>, <i>Prolog.</i> I. 59.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a>, <i>The Heart of Midlothian</i>, Chapter VIII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch<br />At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;<br />Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch<br />Till the white-wing'd reapers come. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Vaughan" title="Henry Vaughan">Henry Vaughan</a>, <i>The Seed Growing Secretly</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Lambendo effingere.</i> <ul><li>Lick into shape.</li> <li>Vergil. See Suetonius, <i>Life of Vergil</i>. <i>Lambendo paulatim figurant</i>. Licking a cub into shape. Pliny—Natural History, VIII. 36.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And that unless above himself he can<br />Erect himself, how poor a thing is man. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, <i>Excursion</i>. V. 158. (Knight's ed.) From Daniel's Essay XIV, in Coleridge, <i>Friend</i>. Introductory. <i>Quam contempta res est homo, nisi super humana se erexerit</i>. As said by Seneca. Amator Jesu et veritatis … potest se … elevare supra seipsum in spiritu. 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