GROWTH-"What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows-it must grow; nothing can prevent it." (pg 92)
Wow! Reading this quote caused me to take a step back and really think about what my life was like a year ago. Everything was so different! I was a freshman questioning my college choice, making friends in Milton Daniel, forming my own opinions on various issues, trying not to gain the freshman 15, and attempting to figure out what I wanted to do with my life.
Now I feel like I'm at a place where I'm really meant to be. I love my school and have made some of the best friends that I couldn't for a second imagine my life without. My opinions have been shaped and molded by all the new people I have met, books I have read, and once foreign concepts that I have now been exposed to.
Sometimes change can be a foreign, scary concept, but that is how we are able to really become the best individual we can be. All things, good or bad, will shape us into the person we are intended to be!
I think that this quote from Mark Twain's "Consistency" speech was used to encourage people to grow as individuals and as a society. It really made quite an impression on me and easily earned its place as my favorite quote of Mark Twain!
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