Someday is today. (seen on a billboard in Times Square)

As Deborah Moggach in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel writes,

"The only real failure is the failure to try.
And the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.
As we always must.
We came here, we tried.
All of us, in our different ways.
Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change?
Too scared of disappointment to start it all again?
We get up every morning, we do our best.

Nothing
else
matters."

from: the Huffington Post article about serendipity.

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.
Carl Sagan
http://www.dedleg.com/page/63/

What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.

Vern McLellan

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right!

Oprah Winfrey

Change before you have to.

Jack Welch

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
- Hans Hofmann

People who succeed at doing what needs to be done are people who have mastered the art of defining problems accurately, and choosing (and implementing) effective solutions.

Dean Anderson, Behavioral Psychology Expert

An elder is telling a story to a child.

ELDER: A fight is going on inside of me.
It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.

One is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.

The other is good. He is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.

The same fight is going on inside of you and inside every other person, too.

CHILD: Which wolf will win?

ELDER: The one you feed

. FROM:
http://zenpencils.com/comic/94-the-two-wolves/

Wow, Bitsy, that is great! Really hits home for me. Sometimes I just don't feel like figuring out the reasons. Things just are.

"For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today."
― Bill Watterson

Thanks Bitsy, for those quotes. I added them to my collection.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_wisdom2.html#Z7Qv12APpOjdlAR6.99

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_wisdom2.html#Z7Qv12APpOjdlAR6.99

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

Robert Brault

"We forge the chains we wear in life."

Charles Dickens

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

Winston Churchill

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

unknown

Consider this from Albert Einstein,
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an empty desk?"

"The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard." - Abraham Maslow

**The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.** Author unknown

p.s. haha don't really do it 🙂

Life starts anew when it gets crisp in the Fall.

How did it get late so soon?
It's night
before it's afternoon.
(Dr. Seuss)

Art was her tool for coping; it was an exorcism. As she put it, "Art is a guarantee of sanity."
Louise Bourgeois

You were given this life because you were strong enough to live it.

~~~ unknown

quote of course didn,t copy and paste right

FEAR has two meanings:

Forget Face
Everything Everything
And And
Run Rise

From: http://www.supportgroups.com/sites/default/files/styles/400x400/public/post_images/10253860_10152155768781637_4251441349616107230_n.jpg?itok=2q6YYXuI

How can you make a fresh start in a New World when you are carrying with you on you boat all the same problems, the same frustrations and inequalities of the Old World?
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III.

Reading through the posted quotes and responses has really helped my day. Thank you each for taking the time to come on here, offer life's inspiration and be real all in one column.
You're wonderful!

Great quote Barb, I actually do not see things that have been in a place for a long time, no matter how inappropriate the place is for it.