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Archives - January 2012

January 1, 2012

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

– Neil Gaiman

January 2, 2012

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

– Charles Chaplin

January 3, 2012

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.

– Vernon Howard

January 4, 2012

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

– Oscar Wilde

January 5, 2012

A library is infinity under a roof.

– Gail Carson Levine

January 5, 2012

A library is infinity under a roof.

– Gail Carson Levine

January 6, 2012

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

– Edith Wharton

January 7, 2012

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..." And then do it.

– Duane Michals

January 8, 2012

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

– Emily Dickinson

January 9, 2012

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

– Wayne Gretzky

January 10, 2012

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

– Haruki Murakami, SPUTNIK SWEETHEART

January 11, 2012

Do one thing every day that scares you.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

January 12, 2012

I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.

– T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace, Penny and Aggie

January 13, 2012

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.

– Joe Ryan

January 14, 2012

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

January 15, 2012

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

– Martha Graham

January 16, 2012

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

– Martin Luther King Jr., STRENGTH TO LOVE, 1963

January 17, 2012

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

– Jane Goodall

January 18, 2012

If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.

– Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009

January 19, 2012

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

– Mark Twain

January 20, 2012

If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

– Albert Einstein

January 21, 2012

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

– Publilius Syrus, Maxims

January 22, 2012

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

– Jay Leno

January 23, 2012

I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

– Trey Parker and Matt Stone, "South Park"

January 24, 2012

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

– Marilyn Monroe

January 25, 2012

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

– Henry David Thoreau

January 26, 2012

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

– Hunter S. Thompson

January 27, 2012

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

– Charles Dickens

January 28, 2012

Well-read people are less likely to be evil

– Lemony Snicket, THE SLIPPERY SLOPE

January 29, 2012

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

– Aristotle

January 30, 2012

Nothing is impossible; the word itself says "I'm possible!"

– Audrey Hepburn

January 31, 2012

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

– Jessica Alba