"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul." - EMERSON
"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’"
- A.A. MILNE,
Winnie the Pooh
Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best—” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.
-A.A. MILNE
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh!” he whispered. “Yes, Piglet?” “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.
-A.A. MILNE
"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
-A.A. MILNE
“If ever there is a tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you.”
-A.A. MILNE,
Winnie-the-Pooh
"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.”
-A.A. MILNE,
Winnie the Pooh
"And by and by Christopher Robin came to an end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop."
-A.A. MILNE,Winnie the Pooh
"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
-A.A. MILNE, Winnie the Pooh
“It is awfully hard to be b-b-brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.”
-A.A. MILNE, Winnie the Pooh
"Did you make that song up?"
"Well, I sort of made it up, " said Pooh, "It isn't Brain...but it comes to me sometimes."
"Ah," said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went & fetched them.
-A.A. MILNE,Winnie the Pooh
“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
