Brief encapsulations of the wisdom and beauty of language.

These quotes often encapsulate profound truths or resonate with my personal experiences, inspiring me to share them as guiding principles or sources of motivation. These snippets of wisdom are meant to offer comfort, encouragement, or perspective during challenging times and serve as reminders of important values or beliefs. Sharing quotes intends connection and seeks mutual understanding, as my hope is we may find solace or insight in the same words. Let these become part of a collective conversation, fostering empathy and fostering a sense of community. Ultimately, my act of sharing quotes reflects a desire to uplift and inspire through the wisdom and beauty of language.

Quotes

“Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.”
– Katherine Sharp
bloomhearty.com 12/6/2024

“Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.”
–Barbara Holland
bloomhearty.com 12/1/2024, 12/2/2024

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” – Edith Sitwell

“Love is the spirit that motivates the artist’s journey. The love may be sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful, or thrilling, but whatever the quality, it’s a powerful motive in the artist’s life.“
– Eric Maisel
bloomhearty.com 10/23/2024

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth. She learned romance as she grew older – the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.” – Jane Austen
bloomhearty.com 10/13/2024

“Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.”
– Jerzy Gregorek
bloomhearty.com 9/25/2024“We are not human beings trying to be spiritual.

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality”
– Seneca
bloomhearty.com 9/26/2024

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” 
– Thorin Oakenshield From “The Lord of the Rings” By J.R.R. Tolkien
bloomhearty.com 9/21/2024

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” 
– Haldir From “The Lord of the Rings” By J.R.R. Tolkien
bloomhearty.com 9/19/2024

“It is best to be quiet when your breath smells like the body part Hobbits are most known for.”
– Unknown
bloomhearty.com 11/1/2024

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” 
– Jonathan Swift
bloomhearty.com 10/21/2024

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” 
– Steve Jobs
bloomhearty.com 10/27/2024

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” 
– Carl Jung
bloomhearty.com 11/8/2024

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
– Oscar Wilde
bloomhearty.com 11/5/2024

“The true measure of a politician is how they handle power and responsibility.” 
– Unknown

“A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.” 
– James Freeman Clarke

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” 
– James A. Garfield
bloomhearty.com 11/6/2024

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” 
– George Orwell

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” 
– Buddha
bloomhearty.com 10/30/2024

“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” 
– Augustine of Hippo

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” 
– Winston Churchill

“The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.”
– Robert Brault

“In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.” 
– Alexis Carrel
bloomhearty.com 11/24/2024

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” 
– Steve Jobs
bloomhearty.com 11/17/2024

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” 
– William Bruce Cameron
bloomhearty.com 9/30/2024

“In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.”
– Ben Bernanke

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
– Goodhart’s Law

“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
– David Hume
bloomhearty.com 11/11/2024

“Humanity reveals her inner beauty through the interplay of gratitude, love, and kindness.”
– Debasish Mridha
bloomhearty.com 11/9/2024

“The beauty that we find in the world is a reflection of the beauty inside of us.” 
– Abhijit Naskar
bloomhearty.com 12/15/2024

“Don’t be a grave robber. Let corpses alone. In due course nature disposes of such remains, if they are left undisturbed. Every time you dig up an old grievance or an old mistake by rehearsing it in your mind or, still worse, by telling someone else about it, you are simply ripping open a grave—and you know what you may expect to find. Live the present. Prepare intelligently for the future—and let the past alone.”
– Emmet Fox, From Around the Year with Emmet Fox
bloomhearty.com 10/25/2024

“Do not fear pain. Fear the absence of pain, for that would mean death. Fear the absence of feeling, for that would mean indifference.”
– Aenea from Endymion by Dan Simmons
bloomhearty.com 10/16/2024

“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” 
– Thich Nhat Hanh
bloomhearty.com 9/17/2024

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” 
– Robert H. Schuller

“I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.” 
– Maya Angelou
bloomhearty.com 9/18/20204

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” 
– Marcus Aurelius

“The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility.” 
– Amy Leigh Mercree
bloomhearty.com 9/23/2024

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” 
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
bloomhearty.com 10/8/2024

“The pen is mightier than the sword.” 
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” 
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.” 
– Oscar Arias

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” 
– Nelson Mandela

“A creative [person] is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
– Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
bloomhearty.com 10/18/2024

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.”
– Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
– Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” 
– Mahatma Gandhi.

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” 
– Dalai Lama.

“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.” 
– Benjamin Disraeli

“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.” 
– Tia Walker

“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.” 
– Mahatma Gandhi
bloomhearty.com 10/20/2024

“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.” 
– Abraham Lincoln
bloomhearty.com 11/5/2024

“Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” 
– Winston Churchill
bloomhearty.com 11/6/2024

“Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.” 
– Margaret Chase Smith

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” 
– Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
bloomhearty.com 10/1/2024

“We are all just visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.” 
– The Overstory by Richard Powers
bloomhearty.com 11/3/2024

“Stop whatever you are doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore?”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
bloomhearty.com 10/2/2024

“Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
bloomhearty.com 10/19/2024

“He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if you will have no sensation, you will feel no harm; and if you will have a different kind of sensation, you will be a different kind of living being and will not cease to live.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“Soon you will be like the ashes or the bones of a man long dead. A mere name or not even a name.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
– Raul Endymion from Endymion by Dan Simmons

“Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“The rottenness of another man’s character is not your concern.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“Life is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
bloomhearty.com 12/3/2024

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
bloomhearty.com 10/11/2024

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
bloomhearty.com 9/15/2024

“Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.”
– from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”
– Agnes De Mille
bloomhearty.com 9/9/2024

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambitions.”
– Samuel Johnson
bloomhearty.com 9/4/2024

“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.”
– Harriet Becher Stowe
bloomhearty.com 9/3/2024

“Little flower — but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all
I should know what God and [woman] is.”
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“The first wealth is health.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
bloomhearty.com 8/26/20204

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
– Collete
bloomhearty.com 8/22/2024

“I am not afraid of storms because I am learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
bloomhearty.com 8/20/2024

“The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something…To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.”
– John Rusken
bloomhearty.com 8/19/2024

“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.”
– Pearl Buck

“Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have.”
– Doris Mortman
bloomhearty.com 8/17/2024

“Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.”
– Carl Safina
bloomhearty.com 10/5/2024

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
– Henry David Thoreau
bloomhearty.com 8/15/2024

“Work is love made visible.”
– Kahlil Gibran
bloomhearty.com 9/6/2024

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
– Judy Garland
bloomhearty.com 8/21/2024

“We’re all going to die. It’s just a question of when.”
– Westley from The Princess Bride by William Goldman

“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”
– Westley from The Princess Bride by William Goldman

“True love is the greatest thing in the world, except for a nice MLT—mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich.”
– Miracle Max from The Princess Bride by William Goldman

“A pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is Real.”
– Marge Piercy
bloomhearty.com 10/25/2024

” In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes…from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.”
– Salman Rushdie

“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
– Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride by William Goldman

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
– Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride by William Goldman
bloomhearty.com 8/13/2024

“What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person.”
– John Boorman
bloomhearty.com 9/10/2024

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”
– Buddha
bloomhearty.com 8/14/2024

“Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
– Westley from The Princess Bride by William Goldman

“Inconceivable!” – Vizzini from The Princess Bride by William Goldman

“As you wish.”
– Westley from The Princess Bride by William Goldman
bloomhearty.com 8/23/2024

“Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.”
– Ezra Ferber
bloomhearty.com 8/1/2024

“Poetry provides us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality”
– Robert Haven Schauffler
bloomhearty.com 7/31/2024

“Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
– May Sarton
bloomhearty.com 7/29/2024

“Taste concerns itself with broad, lifetime progress and never makes mistakes, style moves by fits and starts and is occasionally glorious.”
– -Kennedy Frasier
bloomhearty.com 7/29/2024

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”
– Robert Frost
bloomhearty.com 7/26/2024

“All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!”
– Bob Newhart
bloomhearty.com 7/21/2024

“Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.”
– Randy Pausch
bloomhearty.com 7/22/2024

“When we are authentic, when we keep our spaces simple, simply beautiful living takes place.”
– Alexandra Stoddard
bloomhearty.com 9/5/2024

“If a home doesn’t make sense, nothing does.”
– Henrietta Ripperger

“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but I almost always end up where I need to be.”
– Douglas Adams
bloomhearty.com 8/7/2024

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.'”
-Kurt Vonnegut
bloomhearty.com 11/14/2024

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“The most amazing things that can happen to a human being will happen to you if you just lower your expectations.”
– Phil Dunphy (Modern Family)

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Bernard Baruch

“The things we cherish, the things we hold dear—these are the things that define us. And if we let them go, what are we then?”
– Father Captain de Soya from Endymion by Dan Simmons
bloomhearty.com 10/15/2024

“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future.”
– Steve Maraboli
bloomhearty.com 7/23/2024

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
– J.M. Barrie
bloomhearty.com 11/23/2024

“Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength.”
– Mary Engelbreit
bloomhearty.com 8/8/2024

“Beauty is altogether in the eyes of the beholder.”
– Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
bloomhearty.com 11/16/2024

“Good taste shouldn’t have to cost anything extra.”
– Mickey Drexler

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
bloomhearty.com 7/25/2024

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
– Walt Whitman

“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that will.”
– Raul Endymion from Endymion by Dan Simmons

“I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.”
– E. B. White
bloomhearty.com 7/27/2024

“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they can be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.”
– Margaret Young

“Words are all we have to express the inexpressible, to capture the fleeting moments of beauty and sorrow, of joy and pain. They are the threads that weave the fabric of our lives, the echoes of our souls. They are the legacy we leave behind, the stories that define us.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons
bloomhearty.com 7/20/2024

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
– Nelson Mandela

“I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.”
– Maya Angelou
bloomhearty.com 7/18/2024

“Buckle Up.”
– Unknown
bloomhearty.com 7/16/2024

“Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.”
– Ellen DeGeneres

“The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.”
– Bill Murray

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
– Richard Branson

“Rise and shine.”
– Unknown
bloomhearty.com 7/15/2024

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
– Helen Keller
bloomhearty.com 9/14/2024

“The river of time moves relentlessly, and we are all just leaves, floating on its surface, carried by its currents. We may struggle, we may try to direct our course, but in the end, we are all at its mercy.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons

“Facebook redesigns. Twitter redesigns. Personalities, careers, and teams also need redesigns. There are no permanent solutions in a dynamic system.“
– Naval Ravikant

“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
-Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss

“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.”
– Mark Twain

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”
– Robert Fulghum
bloomhearty.com 8/9/2024

“Fate is an excuse for people who have no destiny.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
– Albert Einstein

“It’s a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids. But this one was worth fighting for.”
– Diana Bishop in The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

“Faith is not a matter of logic or reason. It is a matter of the heart, of belief in something greater than oneself. It is a leap into the unknown, a trust in the unseen. It is the essence of what it means to be human.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons
bloomhearty.com 8/10/2024

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“War is hell, but it is also a crucible. It strips away the illusions, the lies we tell ourselves, and reveals the truth of who we are. It is a test, a trial by fire, and those who survive it are forever changed.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.“
– Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.”
– Sam Levenson
bloomhearty.com 11/15/2024

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin

“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Time is the greatest innovator.”
– Francis Bacon

“One must judge people not by their opinions but what their opinions have made of them.”
– George Christopher Lichtenberg
bloomhearty.com 7/6/2024

“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.”
– Diana Bishop in The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
bloomhearty.com 7/24/2024

“Books don’t have to be heavy for them to be influential.”
– Diana Bishop in The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

“Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.”
– Aristotle

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”
– Lao Tzu
bloomhearty.com 8/11/2024

“Memory is the thread of personal identity, history is the thread of civilization.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons
bloomhearty.com 9/11/2024

“The more we know, the less we understand.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
– George Bernard Shaw
bloomhearty.com 6/28/2024

“If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. If it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.”
– Joseph H. Pilates

“There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.”
– Henri Amiel
bloomhearty.com 6/25/2024

“Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.”
– Hindu Proverb
bloomhearty.com 6/27/2024

“Life is very short. Try everything you’ve dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don’t forget the sunscreen.”
– Amber Benson
bloomhearty.com 6/29/2024

“Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul—chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!”
– Anne Tyler

“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
– Benjamin Franklin
bloomhearty.com 6/30/2024

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
– La Rochefoucauld
bloomhearty.com 7/1/2024

“Do not be afraid of love. It will guide you, protect you, and save you. It will lead you to unimaginable places. Let it.”
– Diana Bishop in The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
bloomhearty.com 10/10/2024

“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”
– From The Call of the Wild by Jack London
bloomhearty.com 8/12/2024

“Life is not [entirely] a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.”
– From White Fang by Jack London
bloomhearty.com 9/12/2024

“Magic is desire made real.”
– Matthew Clairmont in The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

“Please don’t feed the dust bunnies.”
– Author Unknown

“A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.”
– Phyllis McGinley
bloomhearty.com 7/7/2024

“I see you, even when you hide from the rest of the world. I hear you, even when you don’t say a word. I know you, even when you’re lost in confusion. I’m with you, even when you’re alone. Because I love you.”
– Matthew Clairmont in The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

“I have learned that it is no mere metaphor to say that a strong man is born of woman. The strongest, the most self-reliant, the most capable man, the most fearsome opponent in a fight, is ever the tenderest toward women and children.”
– From The Sea-Wolf by Jack London

“It is easy to be philosophical, with a full stomach. One is not necessarily of the criminal type because one has a weak chin and an aquiline nose.”
– from The Sea-Wolf by Jack London

“It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.”
– Diana Bishop in The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
– Tony Blair

“Stay committed to your decisions but stay flexible in your approach.”
– Tony Robbins
bloomhearty.com 6/18/2024

“If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently.
You shield it and protect it.
You never abuse it.
You don’t expose it to the elements.
You don’t make it common or ordinary.
If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new.
It becomes special because you have made it so,
and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.”
– F. Burton Howard
bloomhearty.com 6/19/2024

“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you;
you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
– Bob Marley
bloomhearty.com 6/20/2024

“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
bloomhearty.com 7/10/2024

“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
– Mother Teresa
bloomhearty.com 6/15/2024

“Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be happy the thorn bush has roses.”
– Proverb
bloomhearty.com 6/14/2024

“I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.”
– Coleman Cox
bloomhearty.com 6/11/2024

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation in not to utter words, but to live by them.”
– John F. Kennedy
bloomhearty.com 6/5/2024

“Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.”
-Charles Reade (attrib.)

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
– Albert Einstein
bloomhearty.com 6/6/2024

“You must hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anyone says to you, don’t let ’em get your goat. Try fightin’ with your head for a change.”
– Atticus Finch, in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
bloomhearty.com 6/1/2024

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
bloomheart.com 6/2/2024

“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is the definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”
– Napolean Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“Do every act of your life as if it were the last act of your life.”
– Marcus Aurelius
bloomhearty.com 5/23/2024

“The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.”
– To Build a Fire by Jack London
bloomhearty.com 8/26/2024

“But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.”
– from Martin Eden by Jack London

“The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.”
– Chinese proverb
bloomhearty.com 5/25/2024

“For breath is life, and if you breath well you will live long on earth.”
– Sanskrit Proverb
bloomhearty.com 5/21/2024

“I have learned this thing—this thing which you have tried to teach me all my life: that love is the greatest thing in the world.”
– from The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London

“I trod the corridors of my soul. I walked with ghosts of memories, and my feet were the feet of long-dead men.”
– From The Star Rover by Jack London
bloomhearty.com 10/28/2024

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
– William Arthur Ward
bloomhearty.com 6/7/2024

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
– Walt Disney
bloomhearty.com 6/8/2024

“I realized something on the ride. I realized if I wait until I’m not scared to try new things, then I’ll never get to try them at all.”
– Marie Sexton
bloomhearty.com 6/21/20204

“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
– Chinese proverb
bloomhearty.com 5/29/2024

“I took the one less traveled by and that made all the difference.”
– Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
bloomhearty.com 5/30/2024

“Modern technology owes ecology an apology.”
– Alan M. Eddison
bloomhearty.com 5/22/2024

“Blessed are those who are flexible, for they shall never be bent out of shape.”
– Author Unknown
bloomhearty.com 5/20/2024

“I restore myself when I’m alone.”
– Marilyn Monroe
bloomhearty.com 7/3/2024

“Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray.”
– Author Unknown

“Strange isn’t it. Each man’s life touches so many other lives.”
– Clarence the Angel, It’s a Wonderful Life
bloomhearty.com 6/2/2024

“You will never be able to escape your heart.
So it is better to listen to what it has to say.”
– Paulo Coello
bloomhearty.com 5/19/2024

“Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.”
– Michael Pollan
bloomhearty.com 5/18/2024

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
– Winston Churchill
bloomhearty.com 5/17/20204

“Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are.”
– Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
bloomhearty.com 5/16/2024

“An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body”
– General George S. Patton
bloomhearty.com 5/15/2024

“Sleep is the best meditation.”
– Dalai Lama
bloomhearty.com 5/14/2024

“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
bloomhearty.com 5/13/2024

“There is no black-and-white situation.
It’s all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.”
– Van Morrison
bloomhearty.com 5/12/2024

“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.”
– Adelle Davis

“In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.”
– Henry Brooke

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”
– Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.”
– Plato
bloomhearty.com 6/10/2024

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
– Robert Byrne

“Rome ne se’est pas faite in un jour.”
{“Rome wasn’t built in a day.“}
– ancient French proverb
pronunciation: rohm nuh sey pah fet ahn uhn zhoo(r)
bloomhearty.com 5/11/2024

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
– Benjamin Franklin (attrib.) in Poor Richard’s Almanac
bloomhearty.com 5/10/2024

“Do the thing and you shall have the power.“
– Ralph Waldo Emerson. Essay on Compensation.
bloomhearty.com 5/9/2024

“I guess it comes down to a simple choice really.
You get busy living or get busy dying.”
– Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption
bloomhearty.com 5/8/2024

“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
– Dale Carnegie
bloomhearty.com 6/12/2024

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Life is a game, play it; Life is a challenge, meet it; Life is an opportunity, capture it.”
– Unknown
bloomhearty.com 6/11/2024

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
– Charles Spurgeon
bloomhearty.com 6/10/24

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw
bllomhearty.com 8/27/2024

“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.”
– Barbara Bush

“The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.”
– Robert Kiyosaki

“Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.”
– John C. Maxwell

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas Edison

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
– Jim Rohn

“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.”
– Gever Tulley

“It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks.”
– Bob Richards

“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
bloomhearty.com 10/7/2024

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
– Elbert Hubbard
bloomhearty.com 10/3/2024

“No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.”
– Channing Pollock
bloomhearty.com 7/2/2024

“Never purchase beauty products in a hardware store.”
– Miss Piggy

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
– Henry Ford

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.”
– Nikki Giovanni

“Food should not be too salty, too hot, too bitter, too sweet, too sour.”
– Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.”
– Alfred E. Newman
bloomhearty.com 7/11/2024

“The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.”
– Dodie Smith
bloomhearty.com 11/28/2024

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
– Desmond Tutu
bloomhearty.com 11/27/2024

“There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error: experimentation.”
– Paulo Coelho

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
– Alexander Pope

“How many things are there which I do not want.”
– Socrates
bloomhearty.com 7/14/2024

“What most moved him was a certain meal on beans.”
– Robert Browning

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
– Dale Carnegie

“All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.”
– Winston Churchill

“There are no accidents…there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood.”
– Deepak Chopra

“Courage is the most common and the most misunderstood of virtues.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons
bloomhearty.com 12/6/2024

“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.”
– Margo Kennedy
bloomhearty.com 9/13/2024

“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”
– Wes Fesler

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family.”
– Jim Butcher
bloomhearty.com 11/10/2024

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Change is the only constant. The only thing that stays the same is who we are.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons

“Let him go where he will. He can only find so much beauty and worth as he carries.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
– Cassandra in “I Capture the Castle” By Dodie Smith

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.”
– Khalil Gibran

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
– Mark Twain

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
– Cassandra in “I Capture the Castle” By Dodie Smith
bloomhearty.com 7/12/2024

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
bloomhearty.com 8/28/2024

“There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.”
– Anne Lamott
blomhearty.com 7/28/2024

“Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”
– Maya Angelou
bloomheartly.com 7/17/2024

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
bloomhearty.com 7/13/2024

“If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.”
– Beverley Cleary
bloomhearty.com 11/26/2024

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
– Cassandra in I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
bloomhearty.com 11/18/2024

“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
– Roald Dahl

“It’s going to be happy and wonderful and difficult and sad—and that’s the most perfect ending of all.”
– Cassandra in “I Capture the Castle” By Dodie Smith
bloomhearty.com 12/5/2024

“Betrayal is the most personal of crimes, the deepest of wounds. It is a knife that cuts to the heart, leaving scars that never heal. It is a breach of trust, a violation of the soul. It is the ultimate act of treachery.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
– Harper Lee

“It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
bloomhearty.com 11/20/2024

“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”
-George Bernard Shaw

“Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons

“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.”
– Elizabeth Berg

“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.”
– Confucius
bloomhearty.com 10/29/2024

“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.”
– Roy H. Williams

“Time is an illusion, but an illusion which controls our lives.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons

“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
– A.A. Milne

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”
– Sigmund Freud

“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
– Eric Fromm

“Faith can be a greater asset than certainty. Doubt can be a greater asset than both.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons
bloomhearty.com 11/19/2024

“Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.”
– Vince Lombardi

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
– B. F. Skinner

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
– Anne Frank
bloomhearty.com 10/9/2024

“All stories are true. But some of them never happened.”
– From Hyperion by Dan Simmons

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
– Joseph Joubert

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older, they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
– James Joyce

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
– Robert Kiyosaki

“God is in the details.”
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
bloomhearty.com 10/6/2024

“Intuition is a spiritual faculty, and does not explain, but simply points the way.”
– Florence Scovel Shinon

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.”
– Ender from the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

“The important thing is not to be better than the other guy, but to be better than you were before.”
– Ender from the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
bloomhearty.com 11/25/2024

“We have to learn to play the game by their rules. But that doesn’t mean we have to play their game.”
– Ender from the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
bloomhearty.com 12/7/2024

“The universe is vast, and the Earth is a small part of it. Sometimes, the best we can do is to take care of our own little corner of the universe.”
– Ender from the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

“Don’t Panic.”
– (The Guide itself) from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
bloomhearty.com 11/22/2024

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
– The dolphins (before their departure from Earth) from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

“The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is 42.”
– Deep Thought (the supercomputer) from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
– Arthur Dent from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
bloomhearty.com 11/19/2024

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
– Ford Prefect from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

“I have travelled through time and space to learn that all the answers are very simple, but the questions are very complicated.”
– The Guide (through its own commentary) from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
bloomhearty.com 10/4/2024

“It’s not the size of the ship, it’s the size of the crew.”
– Zaphod Beeblebrox from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

“No one who cooks cooks alone. Even at our most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
– Laurie Colwin
bloomhearty.com 8/30/2024

“The well of Providence is deep. It’s the buckets we bring to it that are small.”
– Mary Webb
bloomhearty.com 8/31/2024

“Another real thing! I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.”
– Keri Hulme

I love a good quote or anecdote, but I am bad at remembering them and I used to not have a place to keep track of them. I like to think this is my shot at fixing that. We can carry on with life and look back here for good measure when we need to find one of these juicy word bits once again.

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