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“To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life.”

Humans Mean Soul Reason Choices Difficult Growth Safety Human Life Compassionate Wiser Nourishment Kinder Difficult Choices

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made ready to meet the vast demands which this growth will inevitably bring, commercial disaster, that means disaster to the whole country, is inevitable.”

Believe Mean Made Country States Whole Growth United United States Ready Demand Disaster Forests Our Country Inevitable Have Faith

Book:Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt: With Portrait Frontispiece

Source: Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt: With Portrait Frontispiece

“The outer is easier, and the outer is objective. For example, one man, Thomas Alva Edison, discovers electricity and the whole of humanity uses it; there is no need for everyone to discover it again and again. Inner growth is a totally different phenomenon. A Gautama Buddha may become enlightened, but that does not mean that everybody else becomes enlightened. Each individual has to find the truth for him or herself.”

“Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.”

Mean Growth Humility Buddhism Cycles Stagnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be only the out-growth of our own perverted life; and though we may endeavor to cut them down and extirpate them by means of law, they will only spring up again with fresh luxuriance in some other form, unless the conditions of human life and character are radically improved.”

Humans May Mean Character Form Law Evil Found Social Growth Cutting Conditions Spring Down And Human Life Endeavor Accustomed Social Evils

Book:Self-help

Source: Self-help

“When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity.”

Way Mean Doe Age Used Humanity Individual Understanding Growth Goes On Development Periods Activity Direct Guidance Excitement Reasonable Corresponding

Book:The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

Source: The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

“In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.”

“Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mean Able Understanding Growth Steps Climbs Fifth Ladders Good Way No Hope Guarding

Book:Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.”

Want Mean Art Made Understanding Growth Cities Art Is Built Stones Appearance Deeper Woods Surface Parks Deeper Understanding

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“If the world is made to furnish each individual with the means of livelihood and the instruments for his growth and progress, each man has therefore the right to find in the world what is necessary for himself. The recent Council reminded us of this: "God intended the earth and all that it contains for the use of every human being and people. Thus, as all men follow justice and unite in charity, created goods should abound for them on a reasonable basis."”

People Ifs Men World Should Humans Mean Made Use Earth Politics Individual Growth Justice Human Beings Economy Progress Bases Instruments Charity Liberalism Reasonable Goods Council Livelihood

Author:Pope Paul VI

“Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means of production... This has happened in some companies through ESOPs. Successful approaches of this sort would pay dividends in terms of employee commitment and morale. And they would not deprive anyone of his present holdings since they are based on future growth.”

“There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.”

People Mean Together Heaven Growth Atheism Positive Atheism Mean People

Book:The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - An Autobiography

Source: The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - An Autobiography

“People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.”

People Ifs Mean Three Opportunity Growth Space Answers Poverty Dignity Increase Threat Population Crowds Decency Decrease Minus Population Growth

Author:Marya Mannes

“the idea of a finished human product not only appears presumptuous but even, in my opinion, lacks any strong appeal. Life is struggle and striving, development and growth - and analysis is one of the means that can help in this process. Certainly its positive accomplishments are important, but also the striving itself is of intrinsic value.”

Source: Self-Analysis

“Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”

Way Mean Growth Behinds Creative Democracy Essentials Ambition Ideals Democratic Notion Impulse Initiative Vitality Standardization Democratic Ideals

Author:Ida Tarbell

“That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth, and that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.”

People Mean Enough Problem Process Growth Growing Information Organization Enormous Quantity Overwhelmed Getting High Disclosure Vets Caliber Whistleblowers Enormous Quantities

Author:Julian Assange

“You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?”

Mean Stuff Growth Wonder Morning Get Up Bother Consumption

Book:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“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]

“Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.”

Mean Jobs Growth Greater Car Movement Population Productivity Goods Efficient Urban Density Goods And Services Job Growth Population Density

Author:Anthony Albanese

“An eternal marriage is eternal. Eternal implies continuing growth and improvement. It signifies that love will grow stronger with time and that it extends beyond the grave. It means that each partner will be blessed with the company of the other partner forever. Eternal signifies repentance, forgiveness, long-suffering, patience, hope, charity, love, and humility. All of these things are involved in anything that is eternal, and surely we must learn and practice them if we intend to claim an eternal marriage.”

“In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.”

World Way Mean Growth Situation Progress Technological Better Off Technological Progress

Author:Peter Thiel

“You see, growing in grace doesn't mean doing more or greater things for God. True growth comes in doing the same things over and over, with more heart assurance that we're doing everything for Him.”

Heart Mean Growth Greater Grace Growing Assurance Greater Things

Author:David Wilkerson

“I have been very lucky because I have had the opportunity to see what it's like to have little or no money and what it's like to have a lot of it. I'm lucky because people make such a big deal of it and, if I didn't experience both, I wouldn't be able to know how important it really is for me. I can't comment on what having a lot of money means to others, but I do know that for me, having a lot more money isn't a lot better than having enough to cover the basics.”

“As you give to fund God's needs, are you forced to trust Him to provide for yours? That's what a growing faith is about. And over the long haul, it's not enough just to commit to a percentage. Growth means reviewing your giving goals and occasionally increasing the percentage you give.”

Needs Giving Mean Long Enough Goal Growth Growing Commit Fund Percentages Haul Long Haul

Author:Andy Stanley

“A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.”

Mean Jobs Growth Four Taxes Percent Aspect Strategy Code Killers Regulation Wages Obamacare Convoluted

Author:Jeb Bush

“The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.”

Mean Soul Self Suffering Turns Force Growth Violence Function Resistance Reform Passive Purification Soul Force Passive Resistance

Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

“Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential.”

Thinking Mean Life Is Growth Interesting Adolescence Exponential Growth

Author:Bill Henson

“I experienced a lot of spiritual growth when I started traveling to Europe and playing basketball. I saw that just because I was away from home didn't mean Jesus wasn't with me. He is everywhere and you can see signs of Him in the most remote places in the world through people who don't even speak your language. Jesus is universal.”

People World Mean Home Spiritual Jesus Speak Language Growth Saws Basketball Europe Universal Spiritual Growth Places In The World Away From Home Playing Basketball Remote Places

Author:DeLisha Milton-Jones

“Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to raising up-if they can-economic growth and employment through the dubious means of suppressing interest rates and printing money. The nice thing about gold is that you can't print it.”

“Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power in the Middle East. That is the case, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a threat.”

Mean States Growth United Mistake Cases United States Virtue Middle Balance Threat Iraq East Iran Middle East Balance Of Power

Author:Trita Parsi

“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.”

People Giving Should May Mean Real Values Courses Lost Growth Steps Security Safe Demand Giving Up Opposites Patterns Surrender Familiar Temporary New Words

Author:Gail Sheehy

“For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith, but it mercilessly examines and questions the spurious "faith" of everyday life, the human faith which is nothing but the passive acceptance of conventional opinion.”

Humans Mean Growth Opinion Doubt Acceptance Gains Everyday Genuine Conventional Passive Superficial Everyday Life Corresponding Certitude

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year. Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population. The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.”

Humans Mean Growth Brain Childhood Birth Shapes Intense Human Brain

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“Forgiveness in no way justifies the actions that caused your wounding, nor does it mean that you have to seek out those who harmed you. It is simply a movement to release and ease your heart of the pain and hatred that binds it. It is the harvested fruit of a season of darkness, followed by a season of growth and of very hard work.”

Way Heart Mean Doe Hard Action Pain Growth Darkness Movement Hard Work Hatred Seasons Fruit Release Ease Justify

Author:Dawna Markova

“There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness.”

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.”

Wells Mean Children Home Together Purpose Growth Movement Traditional Classroom Schooling Schooled

Author:Ernest Istook

“Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.”

Mean States Growth Economy Waste Corruption Deeper Intervention Inefficiency

Author:Ian Bremmer

“The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth.”

Ifs Men Way Humans Mean Two Process Growth Natural Human Beings Successful Ideals Harmony Instinct Extremes Combination Continuing Unnatural Natural Instinct

Author:Bruce Lee

“Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.”

Mean America Sex Growth Race Watches Economic Streets Talent Wall Capitalism South Discrimination Economic Growth Sex Discrimination

Author:Jesse Jackson

“The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.”

Firsts Mean Self Artist Growth One Thing Discovery Cameras Self Discovery Self Growth

Author:Minor White

“If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.”

People Ifs Humans Mean Reason Whole Helping Running Opportunity Growth Human Beings Leader Exciting Department Google Rockets Energetic Housekeeping Rocket Science

Author:Tom Peters

“When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle to our allegedly preordained destiny out there among the stars, all that means is that they have a single story wedged into their imagination so tightly that mere reality can't shake it loose.”

People Mean Stories Reality Courses Stars Growth Imagination Destiny Limits Overcoming Mere Obstacles Shakes

Author:John Michael Greer

“Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn't mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness.”

People Needs Should Mean Different Understanding Growth Essentials Who You Are Tolerance New Things Need A Change Mean People

Author:Toks Olagundoye

“We need to enact fundamental tax reform. The weight and complexity of our 73,000-page tax code are crushing everyday Americans. We need to radically simplify the tax code so that we can re-start the real engine of growth in our economy. That means our tax code needs to go from 73,000 pages down to about three pages.”

Needs Mean Real Three Growth Economy Taxes Pages Weight Fundamentals Everyday Reform Code Complexity Crush Engines Simplify Tax Reform

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.”

Mean Country Growth Grew Grew Up China Eras Isolation Isolated

Author:Zhang Xin

“But in general, as countries get wealthier, there's going to be more savings, which means you're going to have intermediation. So part of it is just the huge growth in wealth, and part of it was globalization - these companies, these clients getting much bigger and much more global.”

Mean Country Growth Wealth Company Huge Bigger Saving Clients Globalization Savings

Author:Jamie Dimon

“In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.”

Mean Long Running Growth Greater Investment Productivity Income Long Runs

Author:Bob Frank

“Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening as deliberate policy in Europe and the United States. Falling or stagnant prices are simply the result of having less income to spend.”

Mean States Fall Growth United Results United States Policy Happenings Europe Investment Income Employment Decline Wages Deliberate Shrinks Stagnant Deflation Capital Investment

Author:Michael Hudson

“When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the 99% in debt are getting all the growth in wealth and income. Deflation means that income is being transferred to the 1%, that is, to the creditors and property owners.”

People Mean Growth Wealth Property Debt Income Owners Shrinking Creditors Deflation

Author:Michael Hudson