Quotes About Growth

What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

I used to be svelte but with age I have svelled.

Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

The gradual change that came over the eleven chosen disciples was not the result of introspection, but of living with their Master, talking to Him, seeing Him work and pray, bringing Him their difficulties, pondering the words of truth that came as the answer to their thoughts. Their desires grew divine because they were "lift upward."

It is much more important that we unite, harmonize and improve what we have than attempt to acquire more.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his souls estate.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Under the right conditions it is as natural for character to become beautiful as for a flower; and if on God's earth there is not some machinery for effecting it, the supreme gift to the world has been forgotten. This is simply what man was made for. With Browning: "I say that Man was made to grow, not stop.