"It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn."

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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

— E. F. Schumacher