Quotes About Bruna

#1. Bruna nodded. We keep the knowledge of the old world for the day it will be needed again, but that knowledge comes with a great responsibility. If the histories of the ancient wars of man tell us anything, it's that men cannot be trusted with the secrets of fire.

Peter V. Brett

#2. Don't be so quick to leave childhood behind, girl," Bruna said. "You'll find you miss it when its gone.

Peter V. Brett

#3. Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone.

John Bruna

#4. Every thought, word, and action plants seeds in the garden of your life. Are you planting seeds of love, compassion, peace, or those of anger, resentment and dissatisfaction? Choose wisely and tend your garden well.

John Bruna

#5. Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.

Dick Bruna

#6. When you look back at the painful and difficult events of your life, you find that they were the times of your greatest personal growth. The challenges of our lives provide us the opportunity to develop our highest potentials.

John Bruna

#7. We will never known what opportunities we may have missed in life by showing up tight-fisted. It is hard to receive anything if we don't open our hands to give.

Bruna Martinuzzi

#8. My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

Dick Bruna

#9. Every moment, every breath, is a new opportunity. An opportunity to let go of the past and to become the person you choose to be.

John Bruna

#10. I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Dick Bruna

#11. Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.

Dick Bruna

#12. I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

Dick Bruna

#13. Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.

Dick Bruna

#14. But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

Dick Bruna

#15. The doors that open and close in our lives are not nearly as important as the person we are when we open them.

John Bruna

#16. When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering.

John Bruna

#17. When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

Dick Bruna

#18. I like poisons, the slowest

and drinks, the stronges

and coffee, the bitterest

and the craziest hallucinations.

You can even throw me off a cliff, I'll say:

So what? I love to fly

Bruna Lombardi

#19. I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

Dick Bruna

#20. Remember, everyone you meet is really trying to do the best they can. No one woke up today and intentionally decided to be mean, difficult, or unreasonable - including you.

John Bruna

#21. Each book first begins with a little idea.

Dick Bruna

#22. Hire people who are smarter than you are - whose talents surpass yours - and give them opportunities for growth. It's the smart thing to do and it is a sign of high personal humility.

Bruna Martinuzzi

#23. Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

Dick Bruna

#24. Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

Dick Bruna

#25. Your genuine happiness does not come from other people, activities or things, it comes from living a meaningful life - a life that is in alignment with your values and is beneficial.

John Bruna

#26. But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.

Dick Bruna

#27. Our genuine happiness comes from doing things we feel good about, not from doing things that make us feel good.

John Bruna

#28. I have been drawing all my life.

Dick Bruna

#29. A leader's upbeat mood metaphorically oxygenates the blood of followers - its' a transfusion into the corporate arteries.

Bruna Martinuzzi

#30. There is no inner peace found in taking care of me and mine. It is present in attending to the needs of we and ours.

John Bruna

#31. Metaphors are one of the most powerful weapons in your arsenal as a presenter. In today's fast-paced world of communication, a well-thought-out metaphor acts as a shortcut to meaning.

Bruna Martinuzzi

#32. Today is sacred - for it will never come again. What could be more important than living this day with attention and the intention to be of benefit, to the best of your ability, to all you encounter?

John Bruna

#33. When someone has wronged you, continue to treat them with civility. It's the ultimate mark of a mensch.

Bruna Martinuzzi

#34. The only thing that separates the person you are from the person you want to be are the actions you take.

John Bruna

#35. I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

Dick Bruna

#36. Patience is an action and a skill to be cultivated. It actually solves more problems that most other actions.

John Bruna

#37. I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

Dick Bruna

#38. Though you may feel that you cannot improve the world, you can always improve yourself. In doing so, the world becomes a better place.

John Bruna

#39. True freedom is the ability to respond consciously, in the most beneficial way, to whatever life throws at you.

John Bruna