Monday, December 31, 2012

TFTD

We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. -- Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Sunday, December 30, 2012

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

Saturday, December 29, 2012

TFTD

My mother said, Don't worry about what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well. -- Lord Mountbatten

Friday, December 28, 2012

TFTD

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! --  Steve Maraboli

Thursday, December 27, 2012

TFTD

I have great faith in fools. Self-confidence, my friends call it. -- Edgar Allen Poe

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

TFTD

It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up. -- C.J. Redwine

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

TFTD

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old. -- Lady Bird Johnson

Monday, December 24, 2012

TFTD


May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;
The spirit of Christmas which is peace;
The heart of Christmas which is love. -- Ada V. Hendricks

Sunday, December 23, 2012

TFTD

It’s not the money you have, or the things you get (or have taken from you) that determine your joy, trust in others, or happiness. Trust, joy, hope, faith, happiness, and love are gifts you give to yourself. No one can take them from you. -- Leeanne Rebic Hay

Saturday, December 22, 2012

TFTD

She wasn’t complaining about what life had dealt her.Only that this was what it was, and that she was moving on and succeeding. -- Don McElfresh

Friday, December 21, 2012

TFTD

Due to the lack of experienced trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed for three weeks. -- Unknown

Thursday, December 20, 2012

TFTD


Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. -- Johnny Carson

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

TFTD

The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful...and decide what you want and need and must do. -- Zadie Smith

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

TFTD


I don’t know about you, but I like winter. I like gray skies and brisk walks on brisk mornings and reading a good book by the fireplace. -- Ron Rozelle

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

TFTD

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. -- Phil Pastoret

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

TFTD

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self. -- Joseph Addison

Monday, December 10, 2012

TFTD

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -- Sidney J. Harris

Sunday, December 9, 2012

TFTD

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. -- Pearl S Buck

Saturday, December 8, 2012

TFTD

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! -- Charles Dickens

Thursday, December 6, 2012

TFTD

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. -- Michael Pritchard

Monday, December 3, 2012

TFTD

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Saturday, December 1, 2012

TFTD

I like friends who challenge me. I like friends who think for themselves. I think allowing such openness allows people to become something extraordinary. -- Jamie Anne Richardson