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“So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there's no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement.”

Ifs Looks Would Be Action Moving Our Lives Growing Progress Movement Keys Evolution Opposites Stuck Developing Accomplishment Staying Mature Expanding Clarifying

Book:Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way

Source: Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way

“For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the universe is an unfolding bud, then I am a part of its creative surge, along with the flowing of water and the growing of pines. I can find a kind of camaraderie in this universe, once I recover from the astonishment of it. Or maybe not camaraderie exactly. What is the opposite of loneliness?”

Ifs Thinking Kind I Can Feelings Universe Water Creative Growing Loneliness Smart Opposites Blessed Belonging Bud Unfolding Astonishment Camaraderie Being Blessed

Author:Kathleen Moore

“Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.”

Kind Play Wanted Growing Up Growing Brother Opposites Girlfriend My Brother Rough My Girlfriend Yang Yin And Yang

Author:Candis Cayne

“Sanctions have nothing to do with this [relations with the People's Republic of China]. The decline in our mutual trade has objective causes, which are the energy prices and the exchange rate difference. But the physical volumes have not decreased, quite the opposite actually. They are growing.”

People Energy Causes Differences Growing Opposites Relation Trade Rate China Objectives Mutual Republic Decline Volume Sanctions

Author:Vladimir Putin

“My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction.”

Want Giving Kind Problem Wanted Felt Parent Growing Up Growing Fronts Cry Okay Opposites Satisfaction Gross Polar Opposites

Author:Lucas Hedges

“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.”

People Mean Doe Technology Growing Intellectual Opposites Complexity March Science And Technology

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers”

Want Soul Dream Body Remember Wonder Growing Letting Go Opposites Rings Shed Annuals

Book:False Papers

Source: False Papers

“Uniting two halves of one soul is inevitable, but timing depends upon your level of spirituality. When the time is ripe, true soul mates find one another even if they are worlds apart— whether physically, on opposite sides of the globe, or spiritually, with contrasting lifestyles and backgrounds. Here’s wishing you the courage to keep growing so that you may know – or continue to know – the blessing of oneness.”

“There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?”

Thinking Knows Way Earth Perfect Growing Tree Roots Opposites Connected Branches Opposing Upside Down Trunks Symmetry

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.”

Hard Character Kids Names Growing Up Growing Effects Building Opposites Coaches Building Character

Author:Steve Carell

“All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.”

People Trying Real Character Young Girl Growing Figures Opposites Behave Characteristics Who We Are Polar Opposites

Author:Zosia Mamet