Archives - January 2022
January 1, 2022
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.
January 2, 2022
Everybody needs a passion. That’s what keeps life interesting. If you live without passion, you can go through life without leaving any footprints.
January 3, 2022
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
January 4, 2022
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
January 5, 2022
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
January 6, 2022
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
January 7, 2022
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
January 8, 2022
Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
January 9, 2022
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
January 10, 2022
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope --- a slight change, and all patterns alter.
January 11, 2022
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
January 12, 2022
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
January 13, 2022
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
January 14, 2022
Even the best of friends need time apart.
January 15, 2022
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
January 16, 2022
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
January 17, 2022
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
January 18, 2022
Always behave like a duck --- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
January 19, 2022
A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.
January 20, 2022
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
January 21, 2022
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
January 22, 2022
Well, isn't every successful person in every family the bankbook?
January 23, 2022
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
January 24, 2022
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
January 25, 2022
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
January 26, 2022
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
January 27, 2022
Health food makes me sick.
January 28, 2022
Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other.
January 29, 2022
Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.
January 30, 2022
If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
January 31, 2022
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.