Growth

“Spring is here — everything is trying to be better, and so are you.”

“All feelings are pure that gather you and lift you up.”

“All grown-ups were once children. But few of them remember it.”

“No rush — take it slow, the good things are on their way.”

“A little progress each day is already wonderful.”

“The only true voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

“The meaning of things lies not in things themselves but in our attitude towards them.”

“The breeze today feels just right — perfect for a walk, or doing nothing at all.”

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

“Our only responsibility is to be faithful to the seed of creativity deep within us, and to let it grow according to its own laws.”

“Our true identity is the one we are still in the process of becoming.”

“A Bird came down the Walk — He did not know I saw — He bit an Angleworm in halves — And ate the fellow, raw —”

“My business is to sing — and that is all I know —”

“If I can stop one Heart from breaking — I shall not live in vain —”

“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”

“Love is the fulfillment of life. We love not to be loved, but to love.”

“In life, being happy is what matters most — everything else is small stuff.”

“My heart is at peace, like a flock of doves that have come to rest after crossing the hills.”

“Find a shady spot, sit down, space out — that's the perfect summer day.”

“The happiest thing in summer is a cool breeze in the evening.”

“Beyond the bamboo, two or three branches of peach blossoms — the ducks are first to know when the spring river water warms.”

“Do not speak of old homes to old friends — try new tea over a new fire. Poetry and wine while the years are kind.”

“Who says life cannot return to youth? Even the stream before my door flows westward! Do not lament white hair at the crowing of the dawn.”

“A sky that has known so many days of rain will never make me weep again.”

“Life is brief — there is no time to waste. Let everything follow the heart, freely.”

“In friendship, the most beautiful is the icing on the cake; the most precious is the coal in the snow.”

“The beauty of years lies in their certain passing — spring flowers, autumn moon, summer sun, winter snow.”

“People are strange — without outsiders watching, they somehow live better.”

“When the heart has no place to rest, everywhere is wandering.”

“Every day can be a fresh start, right?”

“The autumn breeze feels nice — perfect for a walk, or missing someone.”

“Every tree's fruit must ripen on its own.”

“No rush — good things always come.”

“Every little step forward deserves to be noticed.”

“Do not seek what you can have, but become what you ought to be.”

“Be a warm person — light up your own life and others' too.”

“Life's harvest reap like the wheat's fruitful ear.”

“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“He who laughs in joy is not necessarily one who has lived in joy.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

“The mind, unless it is kept in action, grows sluggish and torpid.”

“Fire tests gold, suffering tests virtue.”

“The warmest, happiest place in winter is under the blankets.”

“It's getting cold — add a layer and take good care of yourself.”

“Curling up at home with a good movie — that's the best way to spend winter.”

“Take it slow, no need to rush — life isn't in a hurry.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“The pain you feel is a messenger. Listen to what it says.”