Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

Goran Persson

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Henry Ford

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

Vance Havner

The body needs its rest, and sleep is extremely important in any health regimen. There should be three main things: eating, exercise and sleep. All three together in the right balance make for a truly healthy lifestyle.

Rohit Shetty

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

Morris Dees

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.

Danny Meyer

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Neil Gaiman

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

Max de Pree

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

Zig Ziglar

Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.

Simon Sinek

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Mother Teresa

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

James E. Faust

If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.

Iris Apfel

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

Morihei Ueshiba

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

Dr. Seuss

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Bono

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

Tom Hodgkinson

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Pearl S. Buck

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Aesop

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

George MacDonald