And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. -Rilke

Compassion to others begins with kindness to ourselves. – Pema Chodron

All people should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. -James Thurber

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. -Madeleine L’Engle

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? -George Eliot 

We are a landscape of all we have seen. -Isamu Noguchi

They who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than they who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling. -Johann Kaspar 

Do you wish the world were happy?

Then remember day by day,

Just to scatter seeds of kindness

As you pass along the way.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Somewhere Inside all of us is the Power to Change the World.” – Roald Dahl

My mother used to tell me — she would tell my sister — my mother would look at me and she’d say, “Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.” And that’s why breaking those barriers is worth it. As much as anything else, it is also to create that path for those who will come after us. -Kamala Harris