Today's Quote: Richard Hoffman

 2020 left many with undone plans and actions, 2021 may let us complete them.  Stay safe.  --DM

Text:

All my undone actions wander

naked across the calendar,

~ Richard Hoffman

Today's Quote: Hans Christian Andersen

 

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To know one's self is true progress.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

Today's Quote: Benjamin Franklin

 

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Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Today's Quote: Martha Washington

 

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...the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. 

~ Martha Washington

Today's Quote: Eckhart Tolle

 

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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

~  Eckhart Tolle

Today's Quote: Homer Hickam

 

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Persevere with a plan to reach your passion, and life will be good.

~ Homer Hickam

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

 

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It's an ill plan that cannot be changed. 

~ Latin proverb

Today's Quote: Stephen King

 

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The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

~ Stephen King

Today's Quote: William Hazlitt

 

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We never do anything well 'till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

~ William Hazlitt

Today's Quote: Nikki Grimes

 

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Keep sending good out into the world, no matter what! Someone hungers for the good you have to offer.

~ Nikki Grimes

Today's Quote: Tom Hanks

 

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What do we have that we can have faith in? Well, we can have an understanding of yesterday, we can have a plan for today and we can have hope for forever, and that’s it.  

~ Tom Hanks

Today's Quote: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that's what I think a meaningful life is.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

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It is impossible to find a man who has everything, but it is possible to find one who enjoys the things he has.

~ Maasai proverb

Make It Kenya photo/Stuart Price.

Today's Quote: Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Today's Quote: Oprah Winfrey

 

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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Today's Quote: Lord Byron

 

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The power of Thought,—the magic of the Mind!  

~ Lord Byron

Today's Quote: Eric Hoffer

 

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At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. 

~ Eric Hoffer

Within Imperfect

A poem and photo by Molly Hogan: 

 

WITHIN IMPERFECT

 

If you forever seek perfect, 

you may instead discover a recipe 

for dissatisfaction--a price 

too high to remit. 

 

But within imperfect is a permit 

to take risks, to light a fire 

of creativity, to be bold and fierce. 

 

When you embrace imperfect, 

you set yourself free. 

 

Today's Quote: Nicolas Chamfort

Text:
I admire the man who exclaimed, "I have lost a day!" because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it; but another has observed that "the most lost of all days, is that in which we have not laughed;" and, I must confess, that I feel myself greatly of his opinion.
~ Nicolas Chamfort

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

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He who digs pits for others will fall in them himself.
~ Polish proverb

Today's Quote: John Lewis

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Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
~ John Lewis

Today's Quote: C. S. Lewis

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~ C. S. Lewis

Today's Quote: Confucius

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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
~ Confucius

Today's Quote: Robert G. Ingersoll

Text:
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments--there are consequences.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Today's Quote: Alice Bailey

Text:
Sharing and cooperation must be taught instead of greed and competition.
~ Alice Bailey

Today's Quote: William Wordsworth

Text:
On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
~ William Wordsworth

Today's Quote: Neil Gaiman

Text:
The only thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
~ Neil Gaiman

Today's Quote: Buddha

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Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.
~ Buddha

Today's Quote: William Shakespeare

Text:
Many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
~ William Shakespeare

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

Text:
Only when you have eaten a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is.
~ Ukrainian Proverb

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Today's Quote: Gillian Anderson

Text:
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
~ Gillian Anderson

Today's Quote: James Thurber

Text:
Let's not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
~ James Thurber

Today's Quote: Michelle Obama

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Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
~ Michelle Obama
Portrait by Amy Sherald, © National Portrait Gallery.

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

Text:
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
~ Japanese Proverb

Today's Quote: Arthur Conan Doyle

Text:
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Today's Quote: Buddha

Text:
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
~ Buddha
NYPL Digital Collections.

Today's Quote: Alan Baxter

Text:
You're never going to be good enough to start. But if you start, you'll get good enough. So start.
~ Alan Baxter

Today's Quote: Cynthia Ozick

It is the same for any type of artist. Strive to be the best you can be without comparing yourself to others. --DM

Text:
To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
~ Cynthia Ozick

Today's Quote: Jay Woodman

Text:
It’s no good getting worked up about stuff--it’s better to relax and laugh at our mistakes, then figure out how to learn from them and move on.
~ Jay Woodman

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

Text:
Learn from your tears and you will win laughing.
~ Spanish proverb

Today's Quote: Jodi Picoult

Text:
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
~ Jodi Picoult

Today's Quote: Emily Brontë

Text:
'Twas grief enough to think mankind
All hollow servile insincere
But worse to trust to my own mind
And find the same corruption there
~ Emily Brontë

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

Text:
Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from other's mistakes.
~ Afghan proverb

Today's Quote: Vincent van Gogh

In 2020, be the artist you were meant to be! --DM

Text:
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
~ Vincent van Gogh
Self Portrait by Vincent van Gogh.