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“Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.” Jack London, White Fang
“For it assumed that the aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education—or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.” William Shakespeare, Richard III
“Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without...” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.” Jack London, White Fang
“What greater wealth is there than to own your Me and to spend it on growing?” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“There is no law of conservation which forces the growth of new centers of economic strength to be at the expense of existing centers.” Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
“And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.” Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
“It’s hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can’t understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good—and bad—to...” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.” Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity
“But this is only the sentimental side of the matter; for grow we must, if we outgrow all that we love.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience.” Jack London, White Fang
“They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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