Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Growth
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The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
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All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.
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We must get rid of fear.
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish. The yellow wheat is growing there; the good Earth is silent about all the rest, - has silently turned all the rest to some benefit too, and makes no complaint about it! So everywhere in Nature! She is true and not a lie; and yet so great, and just, and motherly in her truth. She requires of a thing only that it be genuine of heart; she will protect it if so; will not, if not so. There is a soul of truth in all the things she ever gave harbor to. Alas, is not this the history of all highest Truth that comes or ever came into the world?
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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No pressure, no diamonds.