A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Love flows like flowers, and grows like water. I’m so thirsty for romance I could drink a dozen roses.

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

We hold onto our flaws because they are insurance for our failures. Every fear serves a purpose. When we cling to unhelpful beliefs and old fears, we can blame failure on them. Growth requires the...

Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago” [Without learning, life is but the image of death]

Growth is never an event, it’s a process.

But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very...

much stronger position to seize growth opportunities as we move forward.

The drop in oil prices appears to be to be due to continued growth in domestic oil inventories. In addition, there is a realization that efforts to deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions may be protracted...

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I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.

Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life.

It’s really volume driven. There are more and more search queries so growth should continue on the ad front,

Don’t pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.

During the fourth quarter our revenue growth was driven by a combination of fleet expansion and improved revenue per mile. We benefited from opening new service centers, increasing service in existing centers, and a full...

The issues of life present us with invitations to grow; which are wild by their very nature. Wildly arresting or wildly liberating. These moments are inevitable and impossible to avoid; but unequivocally for our edification....

We feel like we’ve got a decent sense of where the growth is going to come from.

as with many other member countries of the Fund, who are effectively managing their economies and recording sustained growth in a stable environment, we will continue our close collaboration with the Fund, and all the...

If experience is the best teacher, there’s nothing that comes close to the experience of life.

The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again.

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great!

I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow.

I remember sitting back, on a local beach I called home; thinking about the wild storms I had already faced, the chaotic thunder I somehow learnt to dance through. This time, remembering it, was different....

It’s not just the growth. We’re using our cars nearly 20 percent more.

You’re talking about an industry that’s had almost unprecedented growth rates, remarkably high growth rates. Very clearly, they are moderating over time. Very clearly, they will continue to moderate. But let’s be clear, they’re moderating...

We already knew that economic growth in the fourth quarter was depressed. The pace of economic growth in the first quarter may be three times as fast, generating a lot of momentum as we head...

Seemingly insignificant choices are like seemingly trivial seeds. Once planted, they root and grow and spread into something tremendous. Imagine the prickly weeds some choices amount to over time and be careful not to plant...

You must embrace change before change erases you.

13NOTESShe hesitated. For two years she had kept as far away from Mikael Blomkvist as she could. And yet he kept sticking to her life like gum on the sole of her shoe, either on...

When I was 15 years old, I came in contact with my first ashram, my first spiritual commune, in the form of Ljusbacken (“The Hill of Light”) in Delsbo in beautiful Halsingland in the north...

The details of the revisions also suggest that growth is on a more sustainable footing.

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

In these times where it has seemed dark indeedwhere integrity appears solely buried in legend and lore, it is an opportunity in contrast to the shadows, to create miracles…by choosing first courage, then diligence, standing,...

If oil goes to $50 a barrel, I think we’re talking about 3 percent economic growth, rather than 4 percent growth, possibly. And the jobless rate could actually go up, not down, because the long-term...

21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.

The second half will show some better growth. Will that be sustained past the second half? For that, two things have to happen: we have to see a pickup in business spending, and the labor...

That underscores the possibility of yet another shoe to fall in world growth — all the more reason to stress the protracted nature of this global downturn.

When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.

They beat my revenue estimates by a wide margin. Twenty-one percent sequential growth in a seasonally slow quarter is pretty damn good.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the...

As we run, we become.

When you are avoiding your pain you are really only avoiding your growth.

Allow your pain to cleanse you and burn away what needs to die.

Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.

Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don’t know.