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Archives - December 2018

December 1, 2018

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

– George H. W. Bush

December 2, 2018

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

– Stephen Fry

December 3, 2018

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

– Hubert H. Humphrey

December 4, 2018

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

– Shakuntala Devi

December 5, 2018

There could be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others. Find something to do. Get off the bench. Don’t sit there whining, sucking your thumb, get in the game.

– George H. W. Bush

December 6, 2018

Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.

– Martin Garrix

December 7, 2018

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

– Benjamin Whichcote

December 8, 2018

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.  If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

– Bill Watterson, "Calvin & Hobbes"

December 9, 2018

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

– Philip Pullman

December 10, 2018

It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

– Molly O'Keefe

December 11, 2018

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

– Elbert Hubbard

December 12, 2018

The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on --- because the reader certainly will.

– Mark Billingham

December 13, 2018

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

– Douglas Coupland

December 14, 2018

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

– Dolly Parton

December 15, 2018

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

December 16, 2018

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

– Michel Houellebecq

December 17, 2018

I always believe holidays strengthen the family bond, away from our daily hectic schedules.

– Chiranjeevi

December 18, 2018

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

– Julie Andrews

December 19, 2018

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

– Lucille Ball

December 20, 2018

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head
And kick every worriment out of the bed.

– Edmund Vance Cooke

December 21, 2018

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

– Gary Zukav

December 22, 2018

Take care that no one hates you justly.

– Publilius Syrus

December 23, 2018

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

– Tommy Cooper

December 24, 2018

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

– Paul Engle

December 25, 2018

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

– Charles Dickens

December 26, 2018

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there’s no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

– Marian Anderson

December 27, 2018

There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really amazing people who you care a lot about who care a lot about you.

– Kathleen Edwards

December 28, 2018

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

December 29, 2018

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

– John Lubbock

December 30, 2018

If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.

– Patti Smith

December 31, 2018

Departure of a year welcomes so many new memories.

– Munia Khan