A Quote A Day...
March 17, 2013
"Luck is when an opportunity comes along
and you've prepared for it."
~Denzel Washington~
March 16, 2013
"May your troubles be less
and your blessings be more,
and nothing but happiness
come through your door."
~Irish Proverb~
March 15, 2013
"Green is the prime color of the world,
and that from which it's loveliness arises."
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca~
March 14, 2013
"If plan A didn't work.
The alphabet has 25 more letters."
~Unknown~
March 13, 2013
"If life were easy
where would all the adventures be?"
~Unknown~
March 12, 2013
"Always laugh when you can.
It is cheap medicine."
~Lord Byron~
March 11, 2013
"The only sure thing about luck
is it will change."
~Wilson Mizner~
March 10 2013
"Today is your day."
~Dr. Seuss~
March 9, 2013
"You can't start the next chapter of your life
if you keep re-reading the last one."
~Unknown~
March 8, 2013
"If he's stupid enough
to walk away;
be smart enough
to let him go."
~Unknown~
March 7, 2013
"Whatever you are
be a good one."
~Unknown~
March 6, 2013
"Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it."
~Lou Holtz~
March 5, 2013
"The strongest people
aren't always the people who win,
but the people who don't give up
when they lose."
~Ashley Hodgeson~
March 4, 2013
"A ship in harbor is safe,
but that is not what ships are built for."
~William Shedd~
March 3, 2013
"Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of
life's coming attractions."
~Albert Einstein~
March 2, 2013
"Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting so...
get on your way!"
~Dr. Seuss~
March 1, 2013
"March comes in like a lion
and out like a lamb"
~Idiom~
February 28, 2013
"Even when it is cold outside
memories keep us warm."
~Unknown~
February 27, 2013
"The doors we open and close
each day decide
the lives we live."
~Unknown~
February 26, 2013
"It does not matter how slowly
you go as long as you do not stop."
~Confucius~
February 25, 2013
"Laughter is timeless.
Imagination has no age.
And dreams are forever."
~Walt Disney~
February 24, 2013
"All your dreams come true
If you have the courage to pursue them."
~Walt Disney~
February 23, 2013
"Never stop dreaming."
February 22, 2013
"A day without a friend
is like a pot
without a single drop
of honey left inside."
~Winnie the Pooh~
February 21, 2013
"Come bounce with me."
~Tigger~
February 20, 2013
"Some imagination...huh?"
~Mickey Mouse~
February 19, 2013
"A dream is a wish your heart makes."
~Cinderella~
February 18, 2013
"I'm through accepting limits
'cuz someone says they're so."
~Wicked~
February 17, 2013
"What others think is not important.
How you feel about yourself is all that matters."
~Unknown~
February 16, 2013
"Let your worries go."
~Unknown~
February 15, 2013
"Hakuna Matata"
~Lion King~
February 14, 2013
"If you love someone, let them go.
If they return to you,
it was meant to be.
If they don't, their love was never
yours to begin with."
~Unknown~
February 13, 2013
"No man is worth your tears,
but once you find one who is,
he won't make you cry."
~Unknown~
February 12, 2013
"Character is the real foundation
of all worthwhile success."
~John Hays Hammond~
February 11, 2013
"I teach you and you teach me.
Together we learn to love to learn."
~Ron Clark~
February 10, 2013
"Education is not the filling of a pail
but the lighting of a fire."
~William Butler Yeats~
February 9, 2013
"And so the lion
fell in love with the lamb."
~Twilight~
February 8, 2013
"Love with your heart
not your mind."
~Unknown~
February 7, 2013
"In the confrontation
between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength,
but through persistence."
~Buddha~
February 6, 2013
"Genius is initiative on fire."
~Holbrook Jackson~
February 5, 2013
"Winning isn't the score on the board,
it's seeing through something
through to the end and then
congratulating your opponent."
~Unknown~
February 4, 2013
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life,
but I have felt it."
~Igor Stravinsky~
February 3, 2013
"It's not about perfect
it's about effort."
~Jillian Michaels~
February 2, 2013
"Feel the fear
and do it anyway"
~Susan Jeffers~
February 1, 2013
"If you wanna make the world a better place
take a look at yourself and then make that...
CHANGE."
~Michael Jackson~
January 31, 2013
"I can because I think I can."
~Unknown~
January 30, 2013
"I want to live my life
so that my nights are not
full of regrets."
~David Herbert Lawrence~
January 29, 2013
"The only real mistake
is the one from which
we learn nothing."
~John Powell~
January 28, 2013
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results."
~Albert Einstein~
January 27, 2013
"Stop waiting for things to happen
go out and make them happen."
~Unknown~
January 26, 2013
"Don't give up what you want most
for what you want now."
~Weight Watchers~
January 25, 2013
"Advice is like snow
the softer it falls,
the longer it dwells upon
and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
January 24, 2013
"Adopting one child won't change the world
but for that child the world will change."
~Unknown~
January 23, 2013
"Just when the caterpillar
thought the world was over
it became a butterfly."
~Unknown~
January 22, 2013
"Any genuine teaching will result,
in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition
of things that existed earlier."
John Dewey~
January 21, 2013
"If you can't fly, then run,
if you can't run, then walk,
if you can't walk, then crawl,
but whatever you do,
you have to keep moving forward."
~Martin Luther King Jr.~
January 20, 2013
"It's kind of fun
to do the impossible."
~Walt Disney~
January 19, 2013
"Weight loss is like driving:
If you ever veer off the road,
just make a U-turn
and head back in the right direction."
~Unknown~
January 18, 2013
"Every race is an opportunity
to measure yourself against
your own potential."
~Bud Wilkinson~
January 17, 2013
"The flower that blooms in adversity
is the most rare and beautiful of all."
~Mulan~
January 16, 2013
"Today's special moments
are tomorrows memories."
~Genie~
January 15, 2013
"Like so many things,
it is not what is outside,
but what is inside that counts"
~Aladdin~
January 14, 2013
"Don't count the days...
make the days count."
~Muhammad Ali~
January 13, 2013
"Unless you faint, puke or die
keep walking."
~Jillian Michaels~
January 12, 2013
"Faith is taking the first step
when one doesn't see the whole staircase."
~Martin Luther King Jr.~
January 11, 2013
"I touch the future
I teach."
~Christa McAuliffe~
January 10, 2013
"Use your light to ignite
the spark of inspiration in others"
~Claire Brummell~
January 9, 2013
~Teaching is the one profession
that creates all other professions."
~Unknown~
January 8, 2013
"The best teachers
teach from the heart,
not from the book."
~Unknown~
January 7, 2013
"Teaching kids to count is fine,
but teaching them what counts is best."
~Bob Talbart~
January 6, 2013
"Happiness is like a butterfly;
the more you chase it,
the more you will elude it,
but if you turn your attention
to other things,
it will come and sit softly
on your shoulder..."
~Thoreau~
January 5, 2013
"Be like a postage stamp.
Stick to one thing
until you get there"
~Josh Billings~
January 4, 2013
"What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
January 3, 2013
"The best and most beautiful
things in the world
cannot be seen
or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart."
~Helen Keller~
January 2, 2013
"The shortest day has passed,
and whatever nastiness of weather
we may look forward to in January and February,
at least we notice that the days are getting longer.
Minute by minute they lengthen out.
It takes some weeks before we become aware of the change.
It is imperceptible even as the growth of a child,
as you watch it day by day,
until the moment comes when with a start of delighted surprise
we realize that we can stay out of doors in a
twilight lasting for another quarter of a precious hour."
~Vita Sackville-West~
January 1, 2013
"We will open the book.
Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity
and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce~
December 31, 2012
"Cheers to a New Year
and another chance for us
to get it right."
~Oprah Winfrey~
December 30, 2012
"People are so worried about what they eat
between Christmas and the New Year,
but they really should be worried about
what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.
~Author Unknown~
December 29, 2012
"Jumping at several small opportunities
may get us there more quickly
than waiting for one big one to come along. "
~Hugh Allen~
December 28, 2012
"If you are always racing
to the next moment
what happens to the one
you're in?"
~Unknown~
December 27, 2012
"Write it in your heart
that every day is the best day in the year."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
December 26, 2012
"Rest is sweet to those who labor."
~Plutarch~
December 25, 2012
"He who has not Christmas in his heart
will never find it under a tree."
~Roy L. Smith~
December 24, 2012
"It's Christmas Eve!
It's the one night of the year
when we all act a little nicer,
we...we...we smile a little easier,
we...w-w-we...we..we cheer a little more.
For a couple hours out of the whole year,
we are the people that we always hoped we would be."
~Anonymous~
December 23, 2012
"At Christmas, all roads lead home.
~Marjorie Holmes~
December 22, 2012
"Love your mother,
the most beautiful person on this Earth.
Our best critic,
yet our strongest supporter."
~Unknown~
December 21, 2012
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred,
and we are better throughout the year for having,
in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
~Laura Ingalls Wilder~
December 20,2012
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons.
It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
~Dr. Seuss~
December 19, 2012
"I'm as light as a feather,
I'm as merry as a school boy,
I'm as giddy as a drunken man!
Merry Christmas to everybody!
And a Happy New Year to the world!"
~-E. Scroo~
December 18, 2012
"In the depth of winter,
I finally learned that
within me there lay
an invincible summer."
~Albert Camus~
December 17, 2012
"Ships in the harbor are safe,
but that's not what ships are built for."
~John Shedd~
December 16, 2012
"Every year on your birthday,
you get a chance to start new."
~Sammy Hagar~
December 15, 2012
"The best of all gifts
around any Christmas
is the presence of a
happy family all wrapped
up in each other."
~Burton Hillis~
December 14, 2012
"At Christmas, all roads lead home."
~Marjorie Holmes~
December 13, 2012
"There is more treasure in books
Than in all pirates' loot on Treasure Island."
~Walt Disney~
December 12, 2012
"People who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do."
December 11, 2012
“Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water –
it will make ripples throughout the entire pond.”
~Jessy and Bryan Matteo~
December 10, 2012“”We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.”
~Winston Churchill~
December 9, 2012
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Soon the bells will start,
and the thing that will make them ring
is the carol that you sing
right within your heart."
~Meredith Wilson~
December 8, 2012
"I am in charge of what I feel
and today I'm choosing happiness."
~Unknown~
December 7, 2012
“And it was always said of him,
that he knew how to keep Christmas well,
if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
May that be truly said of us,
and all of us!
And so, as Tiny Tim observed,
God bless Us, Every One!”
~Charles Dickens~
December 6, 2012
"Respect yourself enough to walk away
from anything
that no longer serves you,
grows you, or makes you happy."
~Unknown~
December 5, 2012
"The color of springtime is in the flowers;
the color of winter is in the imagination."
~Terri Guillernets~
December 4, 2012
"May December 31, find you seated around the dinner table,
together with your beloved family and cherished friends,
ushering in the new year ahead.
You will find the food better, the environment quieter, the cost much cheaper,
and the pleasure much more fulfilling than anything else
you might ordinarily do that night."
~Unknown~
December 3, 2012
"If there's a book you really want to read,
but it hasn't been written yet,
then you must write it.
~Toni Morrison~
December 2, 2012
"Treat people as if they were were what
they ought to be and you will help
them become what they are capable
of becoming."
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~
December 1, 2012
"I love Christmas,
Christmas music.
Christmas trees.
Christmas decorations.
Christmas candy.
Christmas presents.
CHRISTMAS!
~Unknown~
November 30, 2012
"If you see a friend without a smile;
give him one of yours."
--Proverb~
November 29, 2012
"The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me.
It might escape some people who just want to read a comic,
and that's fine. the overall meaning is what matters."
~Brian M. Bendis~
November 28, 2012
"Look up to the sky.
You'll never see rainbows
if you're looking down."
~Charlie Chaplin~
November 27, 2012
"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons.
It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
~Dr. Seuss~
November 26, 2012
“Just once, I would like to wake up,
turn on the news,
and hear…’Monday has been canceled, go back to sleep.”
~Anonymous~
November 25, 2012
"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week."
~Joseph Addison~
November 24, 2012
"I love Christmas, not just because of the presents
but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season."
~Ashley Tisdale~
November 23, 2012
"Black Friday = The Hunger Games.
May the odds be ever in your favor.
~Unknown~
November 22, 2012
"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have
thank to have things I am not able to appreciate."
~Elbert Hubbard~
November 21, 2012
“When one door closes, another opens;
but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
~Alexander Graham Bell~
November 20, 2012
"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."
~Bo Bennett~
November 19, 2012
“The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
~Dr. Seuss~
November 18, 2012
"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
~Albert Einstein~
November 17, 2012
"Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."
~Dr. Seuss~
November 16, 2012
"There aren't enough days in the weekend."
~Rod Schmidt~
November 15, 2012
“So when you're cold
From the inside out
And don't know what to do,
Remember love and friendship,
And warmth will come to you.”
~Stephen Cosgrove~
November 14, 2012
"It is not how much you do,
but how much love you put in the doing."
~Mother Teresa~
November 13, 2012
"Don't follow your dreams; chase them."
- Richard Dumb~
November 12, 2012
”I haven’t failed.
I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
~Thomas Edison~
November 10,2012
"This will remain the land of the free
only so long as it is the
home of the brave."
~Elmer Davis~
November 11, 2012
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song.”
~Maya Angelou~
November 9, 2012
"Education is not filling a bucket,
but lighting a fire."
~William Butler Yeats~
November 8, 2012
"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood."
~Andy Goldsworthy~
November 7, 2012
"You know the feeling when it's the bottom of the ninth,
the bases are loaded,
and you know the next one's coming right down the middle.
And then, you just connect...
and for an instant,
you know that it's going over the fence
and out of the park...
and further than you could ever imagine."
~It Takes Two~
November 6, 2012
"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote
except the American people themselves
and the only way they could do that is by not voting."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt~
November 5, 2012
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~Malcolm S. Forbes~
November 4, 2012
“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~
November 3, 2012
"Courage cannot erase our fear.
Courage is when we face our fear."
~Newsies~
November 2, 2012
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by."
~Robert Frost~
November 1, 2012
"Even if something is left undone,
everyone must take time to sit still
and watch the leaves turn."
~Elizabeth Lawrence~
October 31, 2012
"It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night..."
~Michael Jackson~
October 30, 2012
"The road to a friend's house is never long."
~Proverb~
October 29, 2012
"Don't walk behind me;
I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me;
I may not follow.
Just walk beside me
and be my friend."
~Albert Camus~
October 28, 2012
"Write your first draft with your heart.
Re-write with your head."
~Finding Forrester~
October 27, 2012
"I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
~Helen Keller~
October 26, 2012
"A dream is a wish your heart makes...when you're fast asleep"
~Cinderella~
October 25, 2012
“Someday we'll find it. The Rainbow Connection. The lovers, the dreamers, and me.”
~Jim Henson~
October 24, 2012
"If you can dream it...you can do it."
~Walt Disney~
"Luck is when an opportunity comes along
and you've prepared for it."
~Denzel Washington~
March 16, 2013
"May your troubles be less
and your blessings be more,
and nothing but happiness
come through your door."
~Irish Proverb~
March 15, 2013
"Green is the prime color of the world,
and that from which it's loveliness arises."
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca~
March 14, 2013
"If plan A didn't work.
The alphabet has 25 more letters."
~Unknown~
March 13, 2013
"If life were easy
where would all the adventures be?"
~Unknown~
March 12, 2013
"Always laugh when you can.
It is cheap medicine."
~Lord Byron~
March 11, 2013
"The only sure thing about luck
is it will change."
~Wilson Mizner~
March 10 2013
"Today is your day."
~Dr. Seuss~
March 9, 2013
"You can't start the next chapter of your life
if you keep re-reading the last one."
~Unknown~
March 8, 2013
"If he's stupid enough
to walk away;
be smart enough
to let him go."
~Unknown~
March 7, 2013
"Whatever you are
be a good one."
~Unknown~
March 6, 2013
"Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it."
~Lou Holtz~
March 5, 2013
"The strongest people
aren't always the people who win,
but the people who don't give up
when they lose."
~Ashley Hodgeson~
March 4, 2013
"A ship in harbor is safe,
but that is not what ships are built for."
~William Shedd~
March 3, 2013
"Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of
life's coming attractions."
~Albert Einstein~
March 2, 2013
"Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting so...
get on your way!"
~Dr. Seuss~
March 1, 2013
"March comes in like a lion
and out like a lamb"
~Idiom~
February 28, 2013
"Even when it is cold outside
memories keep us warm."
~Unknown~
February 27, 2013
"The doors we open and close
each day decide
the lives we live."
~Unknown~
February 26, 2013
"It does not matter how slowly
you go as long as you do not stop."
~Confucius~
February 25, 2013
"Laughter is timeless.
Imagination has no age.
And dreams are forever."
~Walt Disney~
February 24, 2013
"All your dreams come true
If you have the courage to pursue them."
~Walt Disney~
February 23, 2013
"Never stop dreaming."
February 22, 2013
"A day without a friend
is like a pot
without a single drop
of honey left inside."
~Winnie the Pooh~
February 21, 2013
"Come bounce with me."
~Tigger~
February 20, 2013
"Some imagination...huh?"
~Mickey Mouse~
February 19, 2013
"A dream is a wish your heart makes."
~Cinderella~
February 18, 2013
"I'm through accepting limits
'cuz someone says they're so."
~Wicked~
February 17, 2013
"What others think is not important.
How you feel about yourself is all that matters."
~Unknown~
February 16, 2013
"Let your worries go."
~Unknown~
February 15, 2013
"Hakuna Matata"
~Lion King~
February 14, 2013
"If you love someone, let them go.
If they return to you,
it was meant to be.
If they don't, their love was never
yours to begin with."
~Unknown~
February 13, 2013
"No man is worth your tears,
but once you find one who is,
he won't make you cry."
~Unknown~
February 12, 2013
"Character is the real foundation
of all worthwhile success."
~John Hays Hammond~
February 11, 2013
"I teach you and you teach me.
Together we learn to love to learn."
~Ron Clark~
February 10, 2013
"Education is not the filling of a pail
but the lighting of a fire."
~William Butler Yeats~
February 9, 2013
"And so the lion
fell in love with the lamb."
~Twilight~
February 8, 2013
"Love with your heart
not your mind."
~Unknown~
February 7, 2013
"In the confrontation
between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength,
but through persistence."
~Buddha~
February 6, 2013
"Genius is initiative on fire."
~Holbrook Jackson~
February 5, 2013
"Winning isn't the score on the board,
it's seeing through something
through to the end and then
congratulating your opponent."
~Unknown~
February 4, 2013
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life,
but I have felt it."
~Igor Stravinsky~
February 3, 2013
"It's not about perfect
it's about effort."
~Jillian Michaels~
February 2, 2013
"Feel the fear
and do it anyway"
~Susan Jeffers~
February 1, 2013
"If you wanna make the world a better place
take a look at yourself and then make that...
CHANGE."
~Michael Jackson~
January 31, 2013
"I can because I think I can."
~Unknown~
January 30, 2013
"I want to live my life
so that my nights are not
full of regrets."
~David Herbert Lawrence~
January 29, 2013
"The only real mistake
is the one from which
we learn nothing."
~John Powell~
January 28, 2013
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results."
~Albert Einstein~
January 27, 2013
"Stop waiting for things to happen
go out and make them happen."
~Unknown~
January 26, 2013
"Don't give up what you want most
for what you want now."
~Weight Watchers~
January 25, 2013
"Advice is like snow
the softer it falls,
the longer it dwells upon
and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
January 24, 2013
"Adopting one child won't change the world
but for that child the world will change."
~Unknown~
January 23, 2013
"Just when the caterpillar
thought the world was over
it became a butterfly."
~Unknown~
January 22, 2013
"Any genuine teaching will result,
in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition
of things that existed earlier."
John Dewey~
January 21, 2013
"If you can't fly, then run,
if you can't run, then walk,
if you can't walk, then crawl,
but whatever you do,
you have to keep moving forward."
~Martin Luther King Jr.~
January 20, 2013
"It's kind of fun
to do the impossible."
~Walt Disney~
January 19, 2013
"Weight loss is like driving:
If you ever veer off the road,
just make a U-turn
and head back in the right direction."
~Unknown~
January 18, 2013
"Every race is an opportunity
to measure yourself against
your own potential."
~Bud Wilkinson~
January 17, 2013
"The flower that blooms in adversity
is the most rare and beautiful of all."
~Mulan~
January 16, 2013
"Today's special moments
are tomorrows memories."
~Genie~
January 15, 2013
"Like so many things,
it is not what is outside,
but what is inside that counts"
~Aladdin~
January 14, 2013
"Don't count the days...
make the days count."
~Muhammad Ali~
January 13, 2013
"Unless you faint, puke or die
keep walking."
~Jillian Michaels~
January 12, 2013
"Faith is taking the first step
when one doesn't see the whole staircase."
~Martin Luther King Jr.~
January 11, 2013
"I touch the future
I teach."
~Christa McAuliffe~
January 10, 2013
"Use your light to ignite
the spark of inspiration in others"
~Claire Brummell~
January 9, 2013
~Teaching is the one profession
that creates all other professions."
~Unknown~
January 8, 2013
"The best teachers
teach from the heart,
not from the book."
~Unknown~
January 7, 2013
"Teaching kids to count is fine,
but teaching them what counts is best."
~Bob Talbart~
January 6, 2013
"Happiness is like a butterfly;
the more you chase it,
the more you will elude it,
but if you turn your attention
to other things,
it will come and sit softly
on your shoulder..."
~Thoreau~
January 5, 2013
"Be like a postage stamp.
Stick to one thing
until you get there"
~Josh Billings~
January 4, 2013
"What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
January 3, 2013
"The best and most beautiful
things in the world
cannot be seen
or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart."
~Helen Keller~
January 2, 2013
"The shortest day has passed,
and whatever nastiness of weather
we may look forward to in January and February,
at least we notice that the days are getting longer.
Minute by minute they lengthen out.
It takes some weeks before we become aware of the change.
It is imperceptible even as the growth of a child,
as you watch it day by day,
until the moment comes when with a start of delighted surprise
we realize that we can stay out of doors in a
twilight lasting for another quarter of a precious hour."
~Vita Sackville-West~
January 1, 2013
"We will open the book.
Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity
and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce~
December 31, 2012
"Cheers to a New Year
and another chance for us
to get it right."
~Oprah Winfrey~
December 30, 2012
"People are so worried about what they eat
between Christmas and the New Year,
but they really should be worried about
what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.
~Author Unknown~
December 29, 2012
"Jumping at several small opportunities
may get us there more quickly
than waiting for one big one to come along. "
~Hugh Allen~
December 28, 2012
"If you are always racing
to the next moment
what happens to the one
you're in?"
~Unknown~
December 27, 2012
"Write it in your heart
that every day is the best day in the year."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
December 26, 2012
"Rest is sweet to those who labor."
~Plutarch~
December 25, 2012
"He who has not Christmas in his heart
will never find it under a tree."
~Roy L. Smith~
December 24, 2012
"It's Christmas Eve!
It's the one night of the year
when we all act a little nicer,
we...we...we smile a little easier,
we...w-w-we...we..we cheer a little more.
For a couple hours out of the whole year,
we are the people that we always hoped we would be."
~Anonymous~
December 23, 2012
"At Christmas, all roads lead home.
~Marjorie Holmes~
December 22, 2012
"Love your mother,
the most beautiful person on this Earth.
Our best critic,
yet our strongest supporter."
~Unknown~
December 21, 2012
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred,
and we are better throughout the year for having,
in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
~Laura Ingalls Wilder~
December 20,2012
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons.
It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
~Dr. Seuss~
December 19, 2012
"I'm as light as a feather,
I'm as merry as a school boy,
I'm as giddy as a drunken man!
Merry Christmas to everybody!
And a Happy New Year to the world!"
~-E. Scroo~
December 18, 2012
"In the depth of winter,
I finally learned that
within me there lay
an invincible summer."
~Albert Camus~
December 17, 2012
"Ships in the harbor are safe,
but that's not what ships are built for."
~John Shedd~
December 16, 2012
"Every year on your birthday,
you get a chance to start new."
~Sammy Hagar~
December 15, 2012
"The best of all gifts
around any Christmas
is the presence of a
happy family all wrapped
up in each other."
~Burton Hillis~
December 14, 2012
"At Christmas, all roads lead home."
~Marjorie Holmes~
December 13, 2012
"There is more treasure in books
Than in all pirates' loot on Treasure Island."
~Walt Disney~
December 12, 2012
"People who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do."
December 11, 2012
“Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water –
it will make ripples throughout the entire pond.”
~Jessy and Bryan Matteo~
December 10, 2012“”We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.”
~Winston Churchill~
December 9, 2012
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Soon the bells will start,
and the thing that will make them ring
is the carol that you sing
right within your heart."
~Meredith Wilson~
December 8, 2012
"I am in charge of what I feel
and today I'm choosing happiness."
~Unknown~
December 7, 2012
“And it was always said of him,
that he knew how to keep Christmas well,
if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
May that be truly said of us,
and all of us!
And so, as Tiny Tim observed,
God bless Us, Every One!”
~Charles Dickens~
December 6, 2012
"Respect yourself enough to walk away
from anything
that no longer serves you,
grows you, or makes you happy."
~Unknown~
December 5, 2012
"The color of springtime is in the flowers;
the color of winter is in the imagination."
~Terri Guillernets~
December 4, 2012
"May December 31, find you seated around the dinner table,
together with your beloved family and cherished friends,
ushering in the new year ahead.
You will find the food better, the environment quieter, the cost much cheaper,
and the pleasure much more fulfilling than anything else
you might ordinarily do that night."
~Unknown~
December 3, 2012
"If there's a book you really want to read,
but it hasn't been written yet,
then you must write it.
~Toni Morrison~
December 2, 2012
"Treat people as if they were were what
they ought to be and you will help
them become what they are capable
of becoming."
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~
December 1, 2012
"I love Christmas,
Christmas music.
Christmas trees.
Christmas decorations.
Christmas candy.
Christmas presents.
CHRISTMAS!
~Unknown~
November 30, 2012
"If you see a friend without a smile;
give him one of yours."
--Proverb~
November 29, 2012
"The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me.
It might escape some people who just want to read a comic,
and that's fine. the overall meaning is what matters."
~Brian M. Bendis~
November 28, 2012
"Look up to the sky.
You'll never see rainbows
if you're looking down."
~Charlie Chaplin~
November 27, 2012
"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons.
It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
~Dr. Seuss~
November 26, 2012
“Just once, I would like to wake up,
turn on the news,
and hear…’Monday has been canceled, go back to sleep.”
~Anonymous~
November 25, 2012
"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week."
~Joseph Addison~
November 24, 2012
"I love Christmas, not just because of the presents
but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season."
~Ashley Tisdale~
November 23, 2012
"Black Friday = The Hunger Games.
May the odds be ever in your favor.
~Unknown~
November 22, 2012
"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have
thank to have things I am not able to appreciate."
~Elbert Hubbard~
November 21, 2012
“When one door closes, another opens;
but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
~Alexander Graham Bell~
November 20, 2012
"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."
~Bo Bennett~
November 19, 2012
“The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
~Dr. Seuss~
November 18, 2012
"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
~Albert Einstein~
November 17, 2012
"Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."
~Dr. Seuss~
November 16, 2012
"There aren't enough days in the weekend."
~Rod Schmidt~
November 15, 2012
“So when you're cold
From the inside out
And don't know what to do,
Remember love and friendship,
And warmth will come to you.”
~Stephen Cosgrove~
November 14, 2012
"It is not how much you do,
but how much love you put in the doing."
~Mother Teresa~
November 13, 2012
"Don't follow your dreams; chase them."
- Richard Dumb~
November 12, 2012
”I haven’t failed.
I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
~Thomas Edison~
November 10,2012
"This will remain the land of the free
only so long as it is the
home of the brave."
~Elmer Davis~
November 11, 2012
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song.”
~Maya Angelou~
November 9, 2012
"Education is not filling a bucket,
but lighting a fire."
~William Butler Yeats~
November 8, 2012
"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood."
~Andy Goldsworthy~
November 7, 2012
"You know the feeling when it's the bottom of the ninth,
the bases are loaded,
and you know the next one's coming right down the middle.
And then, you just connect...
and for an instant,
you know that it's going over the fence
and out of the park...
and further than you could ever imagine."
~It Takes Two~
November 6, 2012
"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote
except the American people themselves
and the only way they could do that is by not voting."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt~
November 5, 2012
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~Malcolm S. Forbes~
November 4, 2012
“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~
November 3, 2012
"Courage cannot erase our fear.
Courage is when we face our fear."
~Newsies~
November 2, 2012
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by."
~Robert Frost~
November 1, 2012
"Even if something is left undone,
everyone must take time to sit still
and watch the leaves turn."
~Elizabeth Lawrence~
October 31, 2012
"It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night..."
~Michael Jackson~
October 30, 2012
"The road to a friend's house is never long."
~Proverb~
October 29, 2012
"Don't walk behind me;
I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me;
I may not follow.
Just walk beside me
and be my friend."
~Albert Camus~
October 28, 2012
"Write your first draft with your heart.
Re-write with your head."
~Finding Forrester~
October 27, 2012
"I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
~Helen Keller~
October 26, 2012
"A dream is a wish your heart makes...when you're fast asleep"
~Cinderella~
October 25, 2012
“Someday we'll find it. The Rainbow Connection. The lovers, the dreamers, and me.”
~Jim Henson~
October 24, 2012
"If you can dream it...you can do it."
~Walt Disney~