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