growth Quotes

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.