Today’s Picture Quote

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier.'” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.” — Henry Moore
“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” — Louis D. Brandeis
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you’ve failed by default.” — J. K. Rowling
“I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?” — Fran Lebowitz
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“Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.” — Catherine Deneuve
“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.” — Hamilton Wright Mabie
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” — George Bernard Shaw
“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.” — Franz Kafka
“A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.” — Irish Proverb
“The fact that someone else loves you doesn’t rescue you from the project of loving yourself.” — Sahaj Kohli
“While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.” — Lady Bird Johnson
“I’d like to grow very old as slowly as possible.” — Charles Lamb
“Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“You are not born a winner; you are not born a loser. You are born a chooser.” — Abhishek Kumar
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” — Clifton Fadiman
“Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.” — Coco Chanel
“In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.” — Eric Schmidt
“I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.” — Rudyard Kipling
“It is a sad regret to have searched for the truth and settled for an answer.” — Robert Brault
“You’re not really famous until you’re a Pez dispenser.” — Carrie Fisher
“When you can’t solve the problem, manage it.” — Robert H. Schuller
“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.” — Unknown
“Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.” — Logan Pearsall Smith
“An opportunist can hand out baloney disguised as food for thought.” — Karl Wagner