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Write it on your heart

that every day is the best day in the year.  

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day

who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. 

 

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;

begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit

to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

  

This new day is too dear,

with its hopes and invitations

to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘it will be happier.’”

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

Gary Zukav

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A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. 

William Carlos Williams

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Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

Helen Keller

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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Khalil Gibran

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We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

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“As long as one has a garden, one has a future; and as long as one has a future one is alive. It is remaining alive which makes life worth living—not merely remaining on the surface of the earth. And it is the looking forward to the future which makes the difference between the two states of being.”

Francis Hodgkin Burnett

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