The silent limbo of the past awaits the Old Year

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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

- Brooks Atkinson

Always aim high

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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

- Les Brown

Every end is a new beginning on the road of life

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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

- Seneca

A comforting thought

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Every flower must grow through dirt.

- Anonymous

Let your imagination soar as high as a kite!

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

- Lauren Bacall

Have you found your invincible summer?

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

― Albert Camus

On catching love in the moonlight

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We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

~ Kim Voller

Life is eventful

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Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

― C.G. Jung

Do stuff and pay attention

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Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

― Susan Sontag

The earth is a beautiful inhabited garden!

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The connections we weave support our world

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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Anger makes you angry

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your engergy and keep you from love.

- Leo Buscaglia

Rise like a phoenix from the ashes

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Pain makes you stronger. Tears make you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser. So thank the past for a better future.

- Unknown

Follow your heart, not your eyes

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Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

from The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life's light and shadows

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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

The reality of dreams

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Reality

Met you by surprise, I didn't realize

That my life would change forever

Saw you standing there, I didn't know I care

There was something special in the air.

Dreams are my reality

The only kind of real fantasy

Illusions are a common thing

I try to live in dreams

It seems as if it's meant to be.

Dreams are my reality

A different kind of reality

I dream of loving in the night

And loving seems all right

Although it's only fantasy.

If you do exist, honey, don't resist

Show me a new way of loving

Tell me that it's true

Show me what to do

I feel something special about you.

Dreams are my reality

The only kind of reality

Maybe my foolishness is past

And maybe now at last

I'll see how the real thing can be

Dreams are my reality

A wondrous world where I like to be

I dream of holding you all night

And holding you seems right

Perhaps that's my reality.

- Richard Sanderson

The power of thought

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Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

-Unknown

Falling apart means falling together

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I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

- Marilyn Monroe

Making the best of things... always

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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Forgetfulness is bliss

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The sunset of life

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The movie of your life

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.

–Unknown

Lots to learn from nature

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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sing, dance, write, paint & make merry... because you can

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Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

-Henry van Dyke

Nothing to lose

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If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.

- Unknown

Explore, dream, discover!

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than be the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

Inspired writing

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Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

- Susan Sontag

Trust in friends

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It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

- Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Community

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A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

- Rudolf Steiner

Life is as dull as you make it

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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Who can you be stupid with?

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It is one of the blessings oft old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our fast-paced world

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These are times of fast food but slow digestion; tall man but short character; steep profits but shallow relationships.

- The Dalai Lama

The heart in the closet

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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Words of wisdom on writing from someone who knows

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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Older and wiser

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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

- Alden Nowlan

Curb your anger!

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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

~Chinese Proverb

Togetherness

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Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

- Khalil Gibran

Let me be something

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“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.

Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm.

Let me be hungry...have too much to eat.

Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful.

Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin.

Only let me be something every blessed minute.

And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

- Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The Book of Life

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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

- Harold Kushner

Nothing like spending quality time with friends...

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A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

- Bernard Meltzer

Always, always, always take sunshine along

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Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

- Anthony D'Angelo

Life is like the weather

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Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.

- Terri Guillemets

Vacation time

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A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

- Unknown

Never lose your spunk!

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

- Aldous Huxley

A beautiful definition of aging

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For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress,

and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars,

invisible by day.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What life is all about

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While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

- Angela Schwindt

Daydreaming is good for you!

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

- Edgar Allen Poe

Seeing with different eyes

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The real voyage of discoveries consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

Carpe diem - seize the day!

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

- Annie Dillard

The choices we make...

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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- Albus Dumbledore

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter