Dieting

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea. It would be much more sensible if resolutions began on January the second. -Helen Fielding

Auld Lang Syne

For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne. -Robert Burns

Action Steps

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. -Confucius

Take the Risk

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't take the risk. -Rosalynn Carter

Direction

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. -Lao Tzu

Everyday

The way I see it, you should live everyday like it's your birthday. -Paris Hilton

Attract More

In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. -Ralph Marston

Pure Love

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. -Peace Pilgrim (Mildred Norman Ryder)

Sugar-plums

The children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads. -Clement Moore

Living Art

We are living art, created to hang on, stand up, forbear, continue and encourage others. -Maya Angelou

Money

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. -Clare Boothe Luce

Opportunities

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. -Jim Carrey

Dreams and Visions

What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions! -Selma Lagerlof

Greatest Happiness

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo

Kindness

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. -Amelia Earhart

Returning

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -Nelson Mandela

I Am

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. -Sylvia Plath

Appreciation

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. -Voltaire

Unknown

Making your unknown known is the important thing. -Georgia O'Keeffe

Feelings

When we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. -Joseph Joubert

To See

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned -- not to see what is not. -Maria Mitchell

Every Individual

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. -Nathaniel Hawthorne

Silent Voice

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts. -Ruth St. Denis

Truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde

Life

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. -Colette

Goodness and Greatness

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable. -Matthew Henry

Creation

The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within. -Louise Nevelson

Failure

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within. -Kin Hubbard

Hearts

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. -Pema Chodron

Happy

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. -Robert Green Ingersoll

Space

Sweetie, if you're not living on the edge, then you're taking up space. -Florynce Kennedy