January 1st
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
January 2nd
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
- David McCullough
January 3rd
As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
- H. Rider Haggard, KING SOLOMON'S MINES
January 4th
Adventure is not outside; it is within.
- Ray Stannard Baker
January 5th
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
- Mel Brooks
January 6th
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.
- Anne Rice, THE WITCHING HOUR
January 7th
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
- Joseph Conrad
January 8th
Ideas without action are worthless.
- Harvey Mackay
January 9th
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
- Dick Wethimer
January 10th
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
- Aristotle
January 11th
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
- Mort Walker
January 12th
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
- Tommy Cooper
January 13th
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
- Martina Horner
January 14th
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
- Andy Rooney
January 15th
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
- The Dalai Lama
January 16th
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
January 17th
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
- John Lennon
January 18th
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
- Chuck Palahniuk
January 19th
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King
January 20th
The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads...
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
January 21st
The more you read
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go.
- Dr. Seuss, I CAN READ WITH MY EYES SHUT!
January 22nd
Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.
- Confucius
January 23rd
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best --- and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
January 24th
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
- Thomas Mann
January 25th
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
January 26th
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
- Joe Martin, “Porterfield”
January 27th
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
- William James
January 28th
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
- Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
January 29th
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines --- so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
January 30th
Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.
- Ellen Degeneres
January 31st
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.
- Anne Lamott
