"Between Stimulus and response, there's a space, in that space lies our power to choose our response, in our response lies our growth and our freedom." Victor Frankl

"Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance." John F. Kennedy

"The primary benefit of practicing art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow." Kurt Vonnegut

"When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves." Ken Druse

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." M. Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author (1936-2005)

"The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken." Antonio Porchia

"We are all trying to get better--if you're standing still, you're getting worse." Tiger Woods

"Change is inevitable, growth is intentional." Glenda Cloud

"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line." Henry David Thoreau, from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

"When you see the value of continued growth, the circumstances around you become stepping stones." Clyde M. Narrimore

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” Edward Abbey

"We find comfort among those who agree with us, growth among those who don't." Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- )