VERN McLELLAN

What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

ANON

A new year’s resolution is something that goes in one ear and out the other.

WILLIAM LOUDEN

To be sure of good health - eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

ANON

Every day must come to you as -
a new hope
a new promise
a new aspiration
a new energy
a new thrill and
a new delight.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

CHARLES DICKENS

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

WASHINGTON IRVING

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

BUDDHA

Do not pursue the past - the past no longer is.
Do not lose yourself in the future - the future has not yet come.
Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.

ANON

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

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

KITARO NISHIDA

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

JOHN LENNON

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

KAREN KENYON

Life need not just happen to us.
We can choose.
We are choosing every moment which direction to turn, towards the light or towards the dark.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Read every day something no one else is reading.
Think every day something no one else is thinking.
Do every day something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

FRIDTJOF NANSEN

The difficult is what takes a little time.
The impossible is what takes a little longer.

ANON

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

VINCE LOMBARDI

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

RICHARD BRAUNSTEIN

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

SALVADOR de MADARIAGA

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never have tried to succeed.

GOETHE

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Chinese Saying

Begin with an error of an inch and end by being a thousand miles off the mark.

SOPHOCLES

Look and you will find it.
What is unsought will go undetected.

HELEN KELLER

The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart

ROBERT LOUIS STEPHENSON

No man is useless while he has a friend.



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Arabian Proverb

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.



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MALCOLM FORBES

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.



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ANON

Live for today,
Forget tomorrow,
Think of your hopes
And not your sorrow.



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BUDDHA

Look within, be still, free from fear and attachment.
Know the sweet joy of living in the Way.

GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE

Now and then its good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.