Growth

Success isn't just about you. It's about who you inspire.

The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time is now.

The intelligent person must know how to separate the essential from the nonessential.

Love is not a contract between two narcissists. It's more than that. It's a construction that compels the participants to go beyond narcissism.

The soundest generalizations about the people of Africa today are that they are diverse and that they are changing fast.

One way of looking at it is that mystery is something that will always be with us. It can be thought of as the error that presses us towards the truth.

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of the others where we first discovered who we are, we are still haunted by the weirdness of our early attachments.

We can only learn to love by loving.

The more you can get emotional consistency by moving away from excessive top-down control and dominance, the more people flourish.

When men and women are rewarded for greed, greed grows; when they are rewarded for love, love grows.

A cultivated mind is, I suspect, always more alive than one that hasn't been cultivated.

Only by looking outward can we attain new vantage points and strive for constant growth.

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Every new born child teaches us that man was not created!

To deepen our comprehension of the existing world is an act of the freest choice and most evident self-activity.