12/31/19

Never give in and never give up. -Hubert H. Humphrey

12/30/19

If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. -John Irving

12/27/19

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it? -Robert Jordan

12/26/19

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer. -Dean Koontz

12/25/19

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 Christmastime. -Laura Ingalls Wilder

12/24/19

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

12/23/19

There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, "I disagree." We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect President. -Natalie Merchant

12/20/19

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. -Henri Nouwen

12/19/19

Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it all out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated. -Naomi Shihab Nye

12/18/19

Closing your eyes to the cruelty of life is, in my opinion, both stupid and sinful. There's very little we can do about it. So we have to at least acknowledge it. -Amos Oz

12/17/19

Standing before the refrigerator: If I have to ask myself if I am hungry, I’m not. -Hugh Prather

12/16/19

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library. -Daniel Quinn

12/13/19

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. -John Ruskin

12/12/19

Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, that processes of co-ordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the co-ordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. There is no hater like one who has greatly loved. -John Steinbeck

12/11/19

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. -Leo Tolstoy

12/10/19

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor. -Leon Uris

12/09/19

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. -Kurt Vonnegut

12/06/19

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. -Oscar Wilde

12/05/19

Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path. -Lu Xun

12/04/19

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. -William Butler Yeats

12/03/19

If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy. -Émile Zola

12/02/19

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. -Frank Zappa