advised

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

present

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Lord Buddha

heart

One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"

stretched

A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

gift

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Fred Rogers

serenity

Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and find serenity.

Lama Surya Das

cause

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle

madman

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Paul Valery

we make

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

2014

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

time

Time passes irrevocably.

Virgil

honest

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Fred Rogers

soon

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

either

Life is like an airplane; you either get onboard, or you don't. It's up to you.

Xavier Grobet

locked

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

Josephine Baker

we

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Lord Buddha

settling

There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela

not just

I'd like to think that we're not just sacks of biological goo careening through a random universe.

Jordan Castillo Price

if

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Albert Einstein

present

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Paulo Coelho