Bloomin' Quotes

Here are some favorite quotes.  May they inspire you to bloom as they have inspired me to.  I love hearing inspiring quotes so feel free to send your favorites  to me at any time.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.  (Christopher Robin to Pooh)
~A. A. Milne

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
~Robert H. Schuller

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. 
~Buddha

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anais Nin

If you were born without wings do nothing to prevent their growing.
~Coco Chanel

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
~Helen Keller

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the sage calls a butterfly." Richard Bach

“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We're afraid.”
“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We will fall!”
“Come to the edge.”
 And they came.
 And he pushed them.
 And they flew.
~Guillaume Apollinaire

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.    
~Theodore Roosevelt

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
~Seneca

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. 
~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. 
~Ambrose Redmoon

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~Dale Carnegie

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
~George Bernard Shaw

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
~Samuel Beckett

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
~Elbert Hubbard

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
~Richard Bach

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
~Helen Keller

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
~Mark Twain

Everything you can imagine is real.
~Pablo Picasso

Imagination is more important than information.
~Albert Einstein