12/31/18

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. -Judy Garland

12/28/18

Another definition of hero is someone who is concerned about other people’s well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them--even if there is no chance of reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero. -Stan Lee

12/27/18

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. -Eminem

12/26/18

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. -Frederick Douglass

12/25/18

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. -Norman Vincent Peale

12/24/18

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. -Dr. Seuss

12/21/18

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -Marlene Dietrich

12/20/18

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. -Bette Davis

12/19/18

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person. -Hillary Clinton

12/18/18

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. -Joseph Campbell

12/17/15

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, "What a jerk!" It takes courage in our culture to be a lover. -Leo Buscaglia

12/14/18

Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story. -Carol Burnett

12/13/18

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -Buddha

12/12/18

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

12/11/18

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. -Menachem Begin

12/10/18

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. -Saint Basil

12/07/13

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. -Ann Voskamp

12/06/18

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. -Peter Ustinov

12/05/18

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. -Leo Tolstoy

12/04/18

It is poor traveling that is only to arrive, and it is poor reading that is only to find out how the book ends. -Arthur W. Colton

12/03/18

Any book could be a self help book if you read it right. -Roxanna Elden