I decided last December that as we are beginning a new decade I'd start a new Quotes page... (My original one has been up ever since I started this blog in June of 2006.) So, here's to a new year, a new decade, and new quotes!

2011
    January

"We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
~Tom Robbins~

    February

"The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget."
~Arundhati Roy~

    March

"Don't let the haters rent space in your head."
~J.K. Driscoll~

    April

"It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears."
~Irish Proverb~

    May

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
~Chinese Proverb~

    June

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
~Anatole France~

    July

"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."
~Hindu Proverb~

    August

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
~William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2~

    September

"There is no education like adversity."
~Walt Disney~

    October

"Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill."
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

    November

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."
~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross~

    December

"Seeing isn't believing: believing is seeing."
~The Santa Clause~

2012
    January

"The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise and most possible."
~Maya Angelou~

    February

"Life isn't about the number of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away."
~Author Unknown~

    March

"Life's not always a bed of roses. It has thorns too."
~"Shilohism" #2~

    April

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
~William Jennings Bryan~

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