Ep 16. Bloom Where You’re Planted

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We’re getting down and dirty with our topic today: Bloom Where You’re Planted. I love plants, their beauty, and their variety. You could even say they make things vibrant.

Thinking Makes Reading Ours

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ~ John Locke

Striving and Struggling

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. ~ Victor Frankl

Gratitude Is Similar To Electricity

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~ William Faulkner

Words Are Events

Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and…

A Problem To Be Solved

Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved. ~ Thomas S. Monson

Step Forward Into Growth

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

It Doesn’t Pay To Get Discouraged

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. ~ Lucille Ball