Quotes About Growth

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

New Year's is every man's birthday.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

No job is more difficult or more rewarding than being a parent.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Sometimes I think my soul is full of weeds!

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?" "What's that?" "The world didn't come to an end.

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it...

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or so people, it is time to build a new church. As soon as the congregation gets to the point where you are not on fairly intimate terms with every other person in that church, then you have become a theater where people can attend services. I do not think you can attend a church service. Service is not something which is there to be viewed as if it were a play or a movie.

A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself!

So you have a new baby sister, huh Charlie Brown? Yes, and I'm so happy... Happy?! I suppose it's never occurred to you that over-population is a serious problem?!

Little brothers are the New York Mets of life!

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.