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"One to grow on" is sometimes associated with a birthday, when you put an extra candle on the cake (to give you one to grow on, for the coming year). But, as the minutes of January continue to tick away, it seems appropriate to give you some tips and resources to grow on for this coming year. After all, books and literature offer some of the greatest learning tools you can get (and we spill our guts free of charge).Here are a few quotes:
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."- e.e. cummings, 1955
"How did it get so late so soon?It's night before it's afternoon.December is here before it's June.My goodness how the time has flewn.How did it get so late so soon?- Dr. Seuss
"Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"- Ralph Waldo EmersonHere are a few thoughts to grow your year on... Enjoy!
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