January 31st
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
— Jane Howard, FAMILIES
January 30th
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
— Ramsay Clark
January 29th
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
— Carl Jung
January 28th
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
— Peter McWilliams, LIFE 101
January 27th
Age is no guarantee of maturity.
— Lawana Blackwell, THE COURTSHIP OF THE VICAR'S DAUGHTER, 1998
January 26th
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
— Ingrid Bengis
January 25th
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
— Alfred North Whitehead
January 24th
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
January 23rd
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
— Cicero, PRO PLANCIO, 54 B.C.
January 22nd
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
— John Hay, "Distichs," latter 19th century
January 21st
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
— Nelson Mandela, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
January 20th
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
— John Updike
January 19th
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 18th
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
— Edgard Varese
January 17th
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
— Michel de Montaigne
January 16th
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
— W. Somerset Maugham, OF HUMAN BONDAGE, 1915
January 15th
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 14th
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
— James Thurber, in an Edward R. Murrow television interview
January 13th
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
— Benjamin Disraeli
January 12th
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
— Woody Allen
January 11th
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, A WOMAN OF INDEPENDENT MEANS
January 10th
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward De Bono
January 9th
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
January 8th
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
— Voltaire
January 7th
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, A CIVIL CAMPAIGN, 1999
January 6th
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
— Edmund Burke, A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL, 1756
January 5th
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
— Gertrude Stein
January 4th
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
— John Witherspoon
January 3rd
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
— George Bernard Shaw
January 2nd
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does --- except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
— Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby"
January 1st
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
— Henry Ward Beecher
