December 1st
I wish to believe in immortality --- I wish to live with you forever.
— John Keats
December 2nd
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
— Margaret Peters
December 3rd
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
— Elbert Hubbard
December 4th
The great tragedy of Science --- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
— Thomas H. Huxley
December 5th
Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth,
And add each night a lustre till afar
An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.
— Emma Lazarus, "The Feast of Lights"
December 6th
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
— Dr. Seuss
December 7th
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
— Erik Nupponen
December 8th
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
December 9th
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
— Pamela Vaull Starr
December 10th
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential --- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
— Søren Kierkegaard
December 11th
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
— William James
December 12th
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
— Noelie Altito
December 13th
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
— Arthur Hays Sulzberger
December 14th
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood, THE CAT’S EYE
December 15th
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
— Ann Richards
December 16th
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
— Julia Ward Howe
December 17th
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
— Madeleine L'Engle, THE ARM OF THE STARFISH, 1965
December 18th
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
— James Russell Lowell
December 19th
My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.
— Joe Weinstein
December 20th
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
— Lewis Carroll
December 21st
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow colorblind.
— Austin O'Malley
December 22nd
In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.
— Edna O’Brien
December 23rd
What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
— Henry David Thoreau
December 24th
Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.
— Carrie Latet
December 25th
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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.
— Charles Dickens, A CHRISTMAS CAROL
December 26th
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
— Bahá'u'lláh
December 27th
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
— Rita Mae Brown
December 28th
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
December 29th
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
— Seneca
December 30th
It’s too early. I never eat December snowflakes. I always wait 'til January.
— Charles M. Schulz, Lucy in “A Charlie Brown Christmas”
December 31st
One day at a time --- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
— Ida Scott Taylor
