Quotes About Growth

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

But one thing, at least, is certain, that no system can be satisfactory, much less successful, which does not provide for the healthy training of the whole being of the child, dividing and distinguishing mental and bodily exercise if it will, but at the same time co-ordinating them in due relations to each other...

The past and present wilt — I have filled them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

Dreams grow like wildflowers in her soul.

...a soul flowering with spirituality...

Learning how to operate a soul takes time.

It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth.

At a certain age some people's minds close up. Then they live on their intellectual fat.

Time gives good advice. (El tiempo da buen consejo.)

Every day a thread makes a skein in the year.

Time more than flies. It tramples. It loots. It mugs.

Time strode with the swiftness of spring blossoms.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now.

Climb a tree — it gets you closer to heaven.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into a giant oak. Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during the school term.

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

May all your weeds be wildflowers.

Free Weeds U Pick 'Em

Upon my lawn, I know not why, the dandelions thrive; the grass may all curl up and die, but they'll remain alive. I've tried about a million plans, to have the vile things slain; and all the schemes were also-rans, and all my efforts vain.