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Every
mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is
sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
- William Ellery Channing
Every
man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character.
Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.
- Sir J. Stephen
What
are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are the
perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
- Immanuel Kant
The
fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind
us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means
leaving things inside us.
- G.K. Chesterton
from Amoira - Wisdom Quotes: Spiritual Growth
http://koti.mbnet.fi/amoira/growth7.htm
I
will govern my life and my thoughts as if the whole world
were to see the one, and to read the other.
- Seneca
If
wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written
upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
- James A. Garfield
What
lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
with what lies within us.
- Oliver Wendall Holmes
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