Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

"Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there"
 "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."    
 Tennessee Williams
Note: sent by my friend Allen Lewis

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.Herbert Henry Asquith

"Very few of us are what we seem." Agatha Christie

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?....For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring
Carl Sagan

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

-- Buddha

>Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
- Nolan Bushnell

Every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of unstable force and proceeds through organization to equilibrium. Equilibrium having been achieved, no further development is possible without once more surpassing the boundaries Kabbalah

Old age is no place for sissies." ~ Bette Davis<>Note: This saying was first introduced to me by my my Uncle Harvey years ago. It is interesting to know the original source

"You are never a great man when you have more mind than heart."&Beauchene

"Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." George Washington
Note: Contributed by NJC

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little
things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given
habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort." (SirHumphrey Davy

>"GREAT THINGS ARE DONE BY A SERIES OF SMALL THINGS BROUGHT TOGETHER VINCENT VAN GOGH

You don't have to kill a horse to break him. You have to convince him."
Ernest Hemingway

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Author: Orison Swett Marden

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
- Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893

"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen." - Henry David Thoreau

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei 1564-1642