Thursday, December 31, 2009

TFTD

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. -- Ellen Goodman

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

TFTD

It Depends on Us... Another year lies before us like an unwritten page, an unspent coin, an unwalked road. the pages will read, what treasures will be gained in exchange for time, or what we find alone the way, will largely depend on us. -- Esther Baldwin York

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

TFTD

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.-- Anais Nin

Monday, December 28, 2009

TFTD

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sunday, December 27, 2009

TFTD

Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. -- Sir Walter Scott

Saturday, December 26, 2009

TFTD

The only true disability in life is a bad attitude. -- Scott Hamilton

Friday, December 25, 2009

TFTD

The main thing is not how long you're on the planet, but the quality you have while you're here. -- Clint Eastwood

Thursday, December 24, 2009

TFTD

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.--Phillips Brooks

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

TFTD

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! -- Charles Dickens

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Monday, December 21, 2009

TFTD

You're special, you're awesome, you're one of a kind! Best of all, dear Grandchild, you are mine for all time! -- Karen Hill

Sunday, December 20, 2009

TFTD

Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends.... -- Ruth Goode

Saturday, December 19, 2009

TFTD

Elephants and grandchildren never forget. -- Andy Rooney

Friday, December 18, 2009

TFTD

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old. -- Mary H. Waldrip

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

TFTD

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. -- Ruth E. Renkl

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

TFTD

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. -- Ellen Glasgow

Monday, December 14, 2009

TFTD

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. -- Ann Landers

Sunday, December 13, 2009

TFTD

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. -- Joseph Addison

Saturday, December 12, 2009

TFTD

As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you. -- Grenville Kleiser

Friday, December 11, 2009

TFTD

The problems of this world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. -- John F. Kennedy

Thursday, December 10, 2009

TFTD

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. -- Mark Twain

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

TFTD

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Thomas Henry Huxley

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

TFTD

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all.
-- Emily Dickinson

Monday, December 7, 2009

TFTD

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. -- Francis Maitland Balfour

Sunday, December 6, 2009

TFTD

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -- Eden Phillpotts

Saturday, December 5, 2009

TFTD

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. -- M. Scott Peck

Friday, December 4, 2009

TFTD

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good and dwell as little as possible on the evil and false. -- Richard Cecil

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

TFTD

Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

TFTD

I get as scared as anyone, But the feeling of putting yourself on the line and having it work is the most exhilarating feeling in the world. -- Conan O'Brien