"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

Growth, Maturity, Life, Truth

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"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

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"When the grass is greener at other people's feet, it is not because the grass chose to take up that complexion. But it is because, they have deliberately irrigated it on regular accounts."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Success, Work, Greener, Grass

"In order to grasp the principles of spiritual growth, you need to be filled with understanding and the wisdom of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Growth, Spiritual, Wisdom, Understanding

"Ladies and gentlemen, let us hear the demand of life and adhere to it. It would do us good."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Growth, Demand, Life, Adherence

"The size of the seed does not determine the size of the tree."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Growth, Potential, Possibility, Nature

"Man will always waste time if there is no system to check and compel him to invest his time."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Growth, Distraction, Time, System, Productivity

"One who conquers others is great, one who conquers the world is mighty, but one who conquers himself is divine."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"In one opinion, the house in which you stay, the church you attend and the town in which you reside may not determine the size of your dreams, but they can influence the rate of maturity of what you have planted."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Dreams, Environment, Maturity

"Greatness can only be attained through time conversion."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Growth, Time, Conversion, Greatness, Investment

"Work is not about survival alone."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Correction is the tool for creating better from worse. Make the best use of it!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art."

Nature

"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

Beauty

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

Dream

"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."

War

"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

Life

"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back."

Mind

"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."

Body

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

Man

"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."

Creativity