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Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Growth is betrayal.

In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: th...

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Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectu...

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What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so ha...

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Jonathan FranzenThe Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality o...

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Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him o...

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s ...

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A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks,...

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Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, maki...

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It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become crea...

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Julia CameronThe Artist's Way Workbook

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in ...

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In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this h...

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Unbreakable, would you thought they called me Mr. GlassLook back on my life like the ghost of Christ...

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Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is s...

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I feel different, better, about my personal life as well as my professional life. So much confidence...

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Kathleen TurnerSend Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life

Death Valley wasn't dead at all. It was asleep. It was simply waiting for the conditions of growth. ...

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Ken RobinsonThe Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that matte...

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The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and rel...

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

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Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured...

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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with beha...

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You must learn to give, from sufficiency, not only take, from neediness.

The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate.

The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a ben...

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Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been si...

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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, ...

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I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of f...

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There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life...

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Marcel ProustRemembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Confronted by too much emptiness, said Adam One, the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as th...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood

I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in...

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Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longe...

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This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not ...

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threa...

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Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament...

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Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that...

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It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant...

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It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignor...

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And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing ta...

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Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we cont...

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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once ...

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The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don'...

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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

~I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU a...

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Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you...

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Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you...

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It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the th...

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I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps...

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Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliab...

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For no man is found so prudent as to know how to adapt himself to these changes, both because he can...

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It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one qualit...

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Oscar WildeThe Soul of Man Under Socialism

My turn shall also come:I sense the spreading of a wing.

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Osip MandelstamThe Selected Poems

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraint...

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Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in th...

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The road to economic well-being is to reward productive economic activity and to provide a moderate ...

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die

Love dies only when growth stops.

Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust,And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things!Grow rich in...

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Philip SidneyThe Poems of Sir Philip Sidney

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives ...

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There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on ...

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Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arro...

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Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the ar...

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I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the question...

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I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enoughto make every moment holy.I am too tiny in this...

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Rainer Maria RilkeRilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

My feet," said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

Seed Leaves Homage to R. F. Here something stubborn comes,Dislodging the earth crumbsAnd making crus...

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We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If y...

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

We must go on, because we can't turn back.

The truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, th...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ev...

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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, ...

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Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperi...

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Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A...

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The thing is, incremental daily progress (negative or positive) is what actually causes transformati...

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The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, ...

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It is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. ...

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In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can ch...

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Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make...

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Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testo...

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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...

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