Growth Quotes

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.

I don’t think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they’ve watched me grow up. But that’s a blessing and a curse.

Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

And when instead of flowers your heart grows thorns – that’s when you know it does not love.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Bitcoin has been performing ~230% a year for a decade.

I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.