Best growth & decay Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Growth Ignorance Birth Illusion Cycles Decay

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Ifs Soul Done Night Growth Watches Morning Accounts Mark Agree Decay Self-examination

Book:The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir

Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir

“You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.”

Ifs Way Giving Doe Enough Moments Helping Might Form Fall Girl Grows Growth Sun Air Flower Fairs Dust Decay Hammers Fetters Narcissus

Book:Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

“Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?”

Ifs Men Needs May Spiritual Growth Church Moral Holy Blessing Seasons Mood Genuine Gods Will Rely Decay Uniforms Doomed Conform Revival Forsake Caprice Spiritual Strength Holy God

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.”

Soul Suffering Growth Decay Sentient Beings

Book:Memnoch the Devil

Source: Memnoch the Devil

“Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.”

Trying Light Energy Growth Blood Movement Decay

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.”

“States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.”

Men States Growth Decay Manhood

Author:Walter Savage Landor

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

World Pain Suffering Growth Space Pleasure Conditions This World Buddhism Birth Decay Spinning Pain And Pleasure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Ends Culture Growth Development Intellectual Function Endeavor Decay Barbarism Emergence Stagnation

Author:Paul A. Baran

“What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing is living. Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay and growth. Hence we think of plants also as living, for they are observed to possess in themselves an originative power through which they increase or decrease in all spatial directions.”

Thinking May Mean Soul Found Growth Movement Perception Increase Plant Locals Former Display Nutrition Decay Decrease Spatial

Book:The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

“The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .”

Ifs Way Soul Reason Growth Alive Movement Perception Plant Connected Intellect Instance Decay Distinguished Nourishment Spatial

Author:Aristotle

“Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.”

Age Growth Novel Youth Aging Decay Alas

Author:Mason Cooley

“Doing work which has to be done over and over again helps us recognize the natural cycles of growth and decay, of birth and death, and thus become aware of the dynamic order of the universe. "Ordinary" work, as the root meaning of the term indicates, is work that is in harmony with the order we perceive in the natural environment.”

Done Helping Order Universe Growth Term Natural Environment Birth Ordinary Roots Harmony Perceive Cycles Decay Natural Environment Birth And Death

Author:Fritjof Capra

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

Growth Birth Creatures Passing Passings Maturity Cycles Decay Again And Again Living Creatures Fertility

Author:Wendell Berry

“Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.”

Growth Contentment Decay Stagnation

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

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