I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
Bloom
Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.