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Archives - December 2017

December 1, 2017

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

– Allen Klein

December 2, 2017

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

December 3, 2017

Time is a physician that heals every grief.

– Diphilus

December 4, 2017

The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."

– Grace Hopper

December 5, 2017

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

– Helen Keller

December 6, 2017

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

– Jim Rohn

December 7, 2017

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language,

– Martin Buber

December 8, 2017

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

– Dita Von Teese

December 9, 2017

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

– Andy Warhol

December 10, 2017

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

– Bill Copeland

December 11, 2017

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

– Maya Angelou

December 12, 2017

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

– Edward H. Harriman

December 13, 2017

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

– Hippocrates

December 14, 2017

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

– Larry Bird

December 15, 2017

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

– Gail Godwin

December 16, 2017

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

– Jean de La Bruyère

December 17, 2017

The return makes one love the farewell.

– Alfred De Musset

December 18, 2017

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

– Arnold Glasow

December 19, 2017

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

– Earl Wilson

December 20, 2017

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

– H.L. Mencken

December 21, 2017

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

– Paul Theroux

December 22, 2017

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

– Oprah Winfrey

December 23, 2017

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

– H. Jackson Brown

December 24, 2017

Why is Christmas Eve such a happy day? I say a little hymn about happy, happy Christmas.

– Amy Campbell, CHRISTMAS EVE, AND NEW YEAR'S EVE

December 25, 2017

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

– Harlan Miller

December 26, 2017

We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes.

– Anne C. Weisberg

December 27, 2017

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.

– Edward H. Dreschnack

December 28, 2017

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

– Abe Lemons

December 29, 2017

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

– William H. Mauldin

December 30, 2017

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

– John Newton

December 31, 2017

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

– Charles Kettering