Winnie-the-Pooh: Touching Quotes from Kind Books by Alan Alexander Milne

Time for a new dose of inspiring book quotes. With this issue of Quotebook, let’s dive into the world of kindness and childhood cheer with a bunch of simple but deep thoughts and touching dialogues from the children’s books about Winnie-the-Pooh by British author Alan Alexander Milne. Enjoy the book quotes with classic book illustrations…

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The things that make me different are the things that make me.

(A. A. Milne)

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“How do you spell ‘love’?”
“You don’t spell it…you feel it.”

(A. A. Milne)

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I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

(A. A. Milne)

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“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.

(A. A. Milne)

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Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

(A. A. Milne)

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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)

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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

(A. A. Milne)

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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

(A. A. Milne)

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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.

(A. A. Milne)

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I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
(A. A. Milne)

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Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.

(A. A. Milne)

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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

(A. A. Milne)

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If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

(A. A. Milne)

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Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.

(A. A. Milne)

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“Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully.
“Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.”
“And he has Brain.”
“Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.”
There was a long silence.
“I suppose,” said Pooh, “that that’s why he never understands anything.”
(A. A. Milne)

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To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
(A. A. Milne)

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Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.
(A. A. Milne)

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“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.

(A. A. Milne)

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Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
(A. A. Milne)

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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)

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Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
(A. A. Milne)

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Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

(A. A. Milne)

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“Sometimes,’ said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

(A. A. Milne)

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It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a Very Small Animal.

(A. A. Milne)

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If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.

(A. A. Milne)

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How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

(A. A. Milne)

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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

(A. A. Milne)

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“But it isn’t easy,’ said Pooh. ‘Because 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)