"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
~T.S. Eliot

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."
~Benjamin Franklin

"Glory to God in highest heaven, who unto man His Son hath given; while angels sing with tender mirth, a glad new year to all the earth."
~Martin Luther

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
~C.S. Lewis

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
~Albert Schweitzer

"Courage is found in unlikely places."
~J.R.R. Tolkien

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
~Charles Dickens

"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"
~G.K. Chesterton

"There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries."
~W.J. Cameron

"The nearer the dawn the darker the night."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
~Henry David Thoreau

"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."
~Saint Augustine

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."
~Robert Louis Stevenson

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
~Abraham Lincoln

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
~Ansel Adams

"Not all who wander are lost."
~J.R.R. Tolkien

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
~Norman Vincent Peale

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
~Anatole France

"Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it."
~L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin."
~Grace Hansen

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
~Anne Bradstreet

"There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball."
~Bill Veeck

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
~Laura Ingalls Wilder

"All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them."
~Walt Disney

"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
~Saint Augustine

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
~Henry David Thoreau

"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
~Albert Einstein

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."
~Brooks Anderson

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
~Abraham Lincoln

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
~Jacques Yves Cousteau

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
~Helen Keller

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
~Henry David Thoreau

"Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His lovingkindness is everlasting."
~Psalms 118:29

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all."
~Stanley Horowitz

"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden."
~ Corrie Ten Boom

"My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"
~Thomas Jefferson

"Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?"
~Matthew 6:26

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
~Robert Louis Stevenson

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift."
~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
~C.S. Lewis

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake."
~Henry David Thoreau

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
~Albert Camus

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
~Dorthea Lange

"If animals could speak the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."
~Mark Twain

"I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth."
~Genesis 9:13

"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
~Robert Browning

"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap."
~Galatians 6:7

"Our life is frittered away by detail...simplify, simplify."
~Henry David Thoreau

"Think of yourself as a seed patiently wintering in the earth, waiting to come up a flower."
~C.S. Lewis