Quotes About Growth And Decay

#1. EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature's grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.

Morihei Ueshiba

#2. As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces- growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying- and at any given moment of our lives, each one of us is actively located somewhere along a continuum between these two forces.

Audre Lorde

#3. If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.

John Owen

#4. The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.

Wilbur Ross

#6. Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.

Alasdair Gray

#7. Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.

James Dobson

#8. All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

Thomas Browne

#9. And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing towards decay.

George MacDonald

#10. Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

Michael Nesmith

#11. Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#12. If that's true and the rate stays like that for another 40 years, there's a good probability that somebody who is active in the credit economy for that period of time might be a victim. But that's not a given.

Keith Anderson

#13. The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Wendell Berry

#14. Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

Frederick Lenz

#15. The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.

Baba Kalyani

#16. He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living sense of the rhythm of growth, flowering and decay.

C. G. Jung

#17. Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

Mason Cooley

#18. States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

Walter Savage Landor

#19. The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

Frederick Lenz

#20. The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.

Paul A. Baran

#22. I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

Sharon Salzberg

#23. We forbid growth and therefore decay. Ambition, and therefore despair. Because each is only the warped relection of the other.

Catherine Fisher

#24. That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can't bear to be this happy without the other person with you.

Anne Rice

#25. I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Henry Miller

#26. Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

Anne Rice

#27. Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.

George Herbert

#28. Rust may never sleep, but then, neither does moss.

Brian Awehali

#29. All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus

#30. Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

James Russell Lowell

#31. Nothing at all can prevent the universal process of birth, growth, decay, and death.

Joseph Goldstein

#32. The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Noam Chomsky

#33. Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

David Walliams

#34. Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

Pankaj Mishra

#35. Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

Isaac Rosenberg

#36. Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?

Watchman Nee

#37. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it.

Mitch Albom

#38. Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.

Iwan Goll

#39. In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics ... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.

Edward Albert

#40. When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

J.P. Donleavy