“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, or a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference.  It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.  It is the nativity of our common Adam. 
-Charles Lamb

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty. 
-John Selden

New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. 
-Hamilton Wright Mabie

The Old Year has gone.  Let the dead past bury its own dead.  The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.  All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! 
-Edward Payson Powell

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow–
You may succeed with another blow,
Success is failure turned inside out–
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit–
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.

- Edgar A. Guest

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. 
Hugh Walpole, Sr. quotes

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool.
“-Shun him”

He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child.
“-Teach him”

He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep.
“-Wake him”

He who knows, and knows that he knows, is a leader.
“-Follow him”

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child’s personality. A child is resentful, negative-or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.
- Sir John Templeton

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.
- E.P. Powell

One comes naked into the world and departs also naked. One must work to match one’s destiny as divinity ordained.
-The Vedas

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Remember! You are born to live. Do not live because you are born. Do not go the way life takes you but take life the way you go.

The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from Karma through renunciation.
-Bhagavad Gita

Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t
exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty,
committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless
darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such
conception.
-Bohidharma

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant
will result in happiness. If we act nonvirtuously, suffering results.
-Sakyong Mipham

To the world you may be but one, but to one you might be the world.

When I first saw you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I first talked to you, I was afraid to like you. When I first liked you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I’m afraid to lose you.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

If I had to choose between breathing and loving you, I would use my last breath to say I love you.

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.