December 31, 2009
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
Bill Vaughan
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December 30, 2009
"Don't push the river. Let the river come to you."
Zen saying
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1:08 AM
December 29, 2009
"What breaks in a moment may take years to repair."
Swedish Proverb
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December 28, 2009
"The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds."
Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935
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12:01 AM
December 25, 2009
"If you have much, give your wealth. If you have little, give your heart."
proverb
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December 24, 2009
"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."
Buddha
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12:42 AM
December 23, 2009
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."
Etty Hillesum
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December 22, 2009
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for."
Epicurus
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December 21, 2009
"In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature."
Edna O'Brien
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12:38 AM
December 18, 2009
"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
Billy Joel
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12:00 AM
December 17, 2009
"Talk does not cook rice."
Chinese proverb
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12:55 AM
December 16, 2009
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
John Updike
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12:52 AM
"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."
Abraham Flexner, educator (1866-1959)
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December 14, 2009
" Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
Chinese Proverb
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December 11, 2009
"Snowmen fall from heaven . . . unassembled."
Unknown
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December 10, 2009
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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1:00 AM
December 9, 2009
"You are as old as your spine."
Yogi Bhajan
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December 8, 2009
"Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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12:36 AM
December 7, 2009
"A long dispute means both parties are wrong."
Voltaire
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December 4, 2009
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
J. Krishnamurti, author, speaker, and philosopher (1895-1986)
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12:43 AM
December 3, 2009
"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind."
Annie Dillard
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December 2, 2009
"'Rules' are just the starting point of the learning process."
Dorenda Watson
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December 1, 2009
"Bad weather always looks worse through a window."
Unknown
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