December 20

Destiny is like a dust storm; you have nowhere to hide.

December 21

Health is the pillar of the soul and an important foundation.

December 22

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

December 23

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

December 24

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

December 25

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

December 26

Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

December 27

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

December 28

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

December 29

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

December 30

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

December 31

It's been quite a journey this year, full of surprises and unexpected events. Let's leave the past behind and move on.

January 1

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

January 2

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

January 3

Life is to talk after a respite and not to act ahead of schedule.

January 5

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

January 6

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

January 7

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all.

January 8

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

January 9

Time held me green and dying. Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

January 10

The meaning of life lies in giving, in devoting, not in receiving, nor in demanding.

January 11

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

January 12

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

January 13

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

January 14

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

January 15

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.

January 16

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

January 17

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

January 18

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.

January 19

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone.