365 Day 160

2011-10-30T14:35:00.000-07:00

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

- Norman Vincent Peale

Day 159

2011-10-30T14:19:00.000-07:00

“Don’t let the noise of other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

- Steve Jobs

Day 158

2011-10-30T14:14:00.000-07:00

“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”

- Lemony Snicket

Day 157

2011-10-30T14:09:00.000-07:00

“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all.”

- Libba Bray

Day 156

2011-10-30T14:05:00.000-07:00

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."

- William Burroughs

Day 155

2011-10-30T09:50:00.000-07:00

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

- Aristotle

Day 154

2011-07-31T06:59:00.000-07:00

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
— Audrey Hepburn

Day 153

2011-07-31T06:57:00.000-07:00

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been."
— John Greenleaf Whittier

Day 152

2011-07-31T06:55:00.000-07:00

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J. K. Rowling

Day 151

2011-07-31T06:54:00.000-07:00

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

-Mae West

Day 150

2011-07-15T12:25:00.000-07:00

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”

- Charlotte Bronte

Day 149

2011-07-15T12:15:00.001-07:00

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

- Winston Churchill

Day 148

2011-07-15T12:13:00.000-07:00

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”

- Oscar Wilde

Day 147

2011-07-15T12:12:00.000-07:00

“The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.”

- Leo Babauta

Day 146

2011-06-29T19:39:00.000-07:00

"Be Kind for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

- Plato

Day 145

2011-06-29T19:32:00.000-07:00

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
— Paulo Coelho

Day 144

2011-06-23T19:18:00.000-07:00

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. "
— Lewis Carroll

Day 143

2011-06-23T19:15:00.000-07:00

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

Day 142

2011-06-23T18:40:00.000-07:00

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

Day 141

2011-06-23T18:37:00.000-07:00

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

- Anne Frank

Day 140

2011-06-21T11:40:00.000-07:00

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

Day 139

2011-06-12T11:54:00.000-07:00

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Day 138

2011-06-06T13:19:00.000-07:00

"Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly."

- Sammy Davis Jr.

Day 137

2011-06-06T13:17:00.000-07:00

"When troubles will come, they are always temporary - nothing lasts forever."

- Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

Day 136

2011-06-06T13:14:00.000-07:00

"My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are."

- B.A. Billingsly

Day 135

2011-06-06T13:12:00.000-07:00

"One must not always think so much about what one should do but rather what one should be."

- Unknown

Day 134

2011-06-06T13:11:00.000-07:00

"Sometimes, friendship means thinking with your heart and not your head."

- Unknown

Day 133

2011-06-06T13:09:00.000-07:00

"We take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."

- Tim McGraw

Day 132

2011-06-06T13:05:00.000-07:00

"Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

Day 131

2011-06-05T18:44:00.000-07:00

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me.

That's what I'd hoped to give you forever"

- Nicholas Sparks

Day 130

2011-05-22T21:11:00.000-07:00

"Yes the past can hurt. But the way I see it you can either run from it, or learn from it."

- The Lion King

Day 129

2011-05-22T21:02:00.000-07:00

“To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it’s like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.”

- Elizabeth Gilbert

Day 128

2011-05-22T20:42:00.000-07:00

“The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart."

- Mike Dooley

Day 127

2011-05-22T20:36:00.000-07:00

“If you are kind people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.”

- Mother Teresa

Day 126

2011-05-22T20:22:00.000-07:00

"You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

Day 125

2011-05-19T11:31:00.000-07:00

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

Day 124

2011-05-18T18:37:00.000-07:00

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

Day 123

2011-05-18T18:33:00.000-07:00

"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

- Oscar Wilde

Day 122

2011-05-11T19:41:00.000-07:00

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

-G. K. Chesterton

Day 121

2011-05-10T07:25:00.000-07:00

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

Day 120

2011-05-09T08:36:00.000-07:00

"If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. and there is nothing more to it than that."

— Brian Andreas

Day 119

2011-05-06T09:24:00.000-07:00

"Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable and fall asleep and miss your life."

-Brian Andreas

Day 118

2011-05-06T09:22:00.000-07:00

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."

- Mother Teresa

Day 117

2011-05-06T09:19:00.000-07:00

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

- Mark Twain

Day 116

2011-05-02T18:44:00.000-07:00

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

– Barack Obama

Day 115

2011-05-02T18:40:00.000-07:00

Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

-Rumi Again

Day 114

2011-05-02T18:36:00.000-07:00

“Find your little heart’s desire – and follow it.”

-Brandon Flowers

Day 113

2011-05-01T10:11:00.000-07:00

"A life not lived for others is a not a life."

- Mother Teresa

Day 112

2011-04-30T20:31:00.000-07:00

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Day 111

2011-04-13T18:44:00.000-07:00

"Love until it hurts, then love more."

- Mother Teresa

Day 110

2011-04-13T18:40:00.000-07:00

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

- Unknown

Day 109

2011-04-13T18:36:00.000-07:00

"In three words, I can sum up everything I know about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

Day 108

2011-04-13T18:33:00.000-07:00

"Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Plato

Day 107

2011-04-13T18:19:00.000-07:00

“We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

- Elizabeth Gilbert

Day 106

2011-03-31T13:58:00.000-07:00

“In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing,

like what you are doing and believe in what you are doing.”

– Will Rogers

Day 105

2011-03-27T16:08:00.000-07:00

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted."

- Randy Pausch

Day 104

2011-03-27T13:35:00.000-07:00

"We know what we are, but not what we may be.”

William Shakespeare

Day 103

2011-03-17T19:43:00.000-07:00

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow."

-Mary Anne Radmacher

Day 102

2011-03-17T17:53:00.000-07:00

"We accept the love we think we deserve"

- Stephen Chbosky

Day 101

2011-03-12T12:25:00.000-08:00

“The only limits are the limits of our imagination. Dream up the kind of world you want to live in.

Dream out loud."

- U2

Day 100

2011-03-12T12:12:00.000-08:00

"Without suffering, there’d be no compassion.

- Nicholas Sparks

Day 99

2011-03-12T11:54:00.000-08:00

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

Oscar Wilde

Day 98

2011-03-12T11:18:00.000-08:00

“There is a very fine line between being insane and being selfless.”

- Joseph Gogler

Day 97

2011-03-12T11:09:00.000-08:00

“I lied when I told you I forgot. I know it doesn’t seem like a big thing but I wanted to tell you the truth and never, ever lie to you. Because that’s how it starts.”

—	I Wrote This For You

Day 96

2011-02-26T14:36:00.000-08:00

"The sun is up, the sky is blue, It's beautiful and so are you."

- Dear Prudence Lyrics

Day 95

2011-02-22T17:18:00.000-08:00

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know you shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.”

- Tuesdays with Morrie

Day 94

2011-02-18T13:58:00.000-08:00

“You know, if we didn’t stick together, we would be very lost indeed”

—	Winnie the Pooh

Day 93

2011-02-18T13:54:00.000-08:00

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

—	Sarah Dessen

Day 92

2011-02-16T15:01:00.000-08:00

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Day 91

2011-02-14T19:17:00.000-08:00

"What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"

- John Green

Day 90

2011-01-17T15:39:00.000-08:00

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Ben Franklin

Day 89

2011-01-17T15:33:00.000-08:00

“Grant me the serenity to accept things we cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Patience for the things that take time. Appreciation for all that I have, and tolerance for those with different struggles. Freedom to live beyond the limitations of our past ways, the ability to feel love for myself and love for others and the strength to get up and try again even when we feel it is hopeless.”

Day 88

2011-01-17T15:29:00.000-08:00

“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.”

- Audrey Hepburn

Day 87

2011-01-16T18:27:00.000-08:00

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

- Confucius

Day 86

2011-01-14T18:38:00.000-08:00

“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who

hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”

- Lewis B. Smedes

Day 85

2011-01-12T14:39:00.000-08:00

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”

- Audrey Hepburn

Day 84

2011-01-12T10:04:00.000-08:00

“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day 83

2011-01-08T08:38:00.000-08:00

""And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Day 82

2011-01-08T08:21:00.000-08:00

- Audrey Hepburn

Day 81

2011-01-04T17:33:00.000-08:00

"You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."

- Nicholas Sparks

Day 80

2010-12-31T13:40:00.000-08:00

"No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today."

- Buddha

Day 79

2010-12-26T20:45:00.000-08:00

"If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all."

- Audrey Hepburn

Day 78

2010-12-26T20:35:00.000-08:00

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
- Anne Frank

Day 77

2010-12-26T20:30:00.000-08:00

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

- John Lennon

Day 76

2010-12-26T20:21:00.000-08:00

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life, to be happy, it's all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

Day 75

2010-12-23T08:00:00.000-08:00

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

Carl Sagan

Day 74

2010-12-08T18:00:00.000-08:00

Happiness is anyone and anything that’s loved by you.

- Charlie Brown

Day 73

2010-12-06T15:44:00.000-08:00

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

- Helen Keller

Day 72

2010-12-01T19:20:00.000-08:00

“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

– Tom Bodett

Day 71

2010-11-30T18:12:00.000-08:00

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”

– Albert Einstein

Day 70

2010-11-29T15:54:00.000-08:00

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

- E. E. Cummings

Day 69

2010-11-18T19:13:00.000-08:00

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

– Elbert Hubbard

Day 68

2010-11-08T16:23:00.000-08:00

“You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Day 67

2010-11-01T10:35:00.000-07:00

"Spend five minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another."

- Dalai Lama

Day 66

2010-10-31T15:33:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween!

Day 65

2010-10-19T18:15:00.000-07:00

“You want to know what living life to the fullest actually is? It is waking up on a Monday morning with no compliants. It’s knowing you always deserve to laugh. It is doing what feels right no matter what. It is doing what you want to do, no matter how stupid you look. It is about being yourself, cause no one can tell you you’re doing it wrong”

- Unknown

Day 64

2010-10-19T18:13:00.000-07:00

“Never underestimate the power of passion.”

- Eve Sawyer

Day 63

2010-10-10T16:54:00.000-07:00

“Maybe divine intervention or divine blessing is what we need to open our eyes and free our souls.”

- Leonardo Aguilar

Day 62

2010-10-10T16:51:00.000-07:00

“Me? I’m scared of everything. I’m scared of what I saw, I’m scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you."

- Dirty Dancing

Day 61

2010-10-07T16:12:00.000-07:00

“I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

- Nicholas Sparks