Animal Rings

Growth is the only evidence of life. - John Henry Newman

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. - Flemish Proverb

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. - John C Maxwell

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. - Pearl S. Buck

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. - Karen K Clark

Having an animal in your life makes you a better human. - Rachel Ray

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. - George Orwell

Mouse: An animal which strews its path with fainting women. - Ambrose Bierce

The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself. - Mark Zuckerberg

Hamster: The animal least likely to be found in a synagogue - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free. - Carol J Adams

We're the only animal that wakes up and doesn't stretch. - Conor McGregor

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey

I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me. - Willem Dafoe

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them. - Elvis Presley

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. - Samuel Smiles

Husband-hunting: A sport in which the animal that gets caught has to buy the license - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. - Eleanor of Aquitaine

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson

A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time. - Marjorie Johnson

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. - Abraham Maslow

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. - Lao Tzu

There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. - James Dean

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. - Hal Borland

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. - Stephen Covey

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel. - Homer Simpson

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. - Henrik Ibsen

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. - Will Cuppy

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. - Herbert Otto

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. - Bertrand Russell

I think trees should bloom earlier in the spring. They act like they are on a schedule. It’s not like they have anywhere to go. - Jarod Kintz

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. - Alice Walker

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. - Mark Twain

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around. - Ernest Hemingway

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. - Viktor Frankl