“Busy is a decision…You don’t find the time to do things — you make the time to do things.” – Jonathan Fields

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” – Joseph Joubert

“Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde

“If it didn’t matter, you wouldn’t be thinking about it.” – Unknown

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.” – James Thurber

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Kahlil Gibran

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford… then I want to move in with them.” – Phyllis Diller

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.” ― C.S. Lewis

“Don’t be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn’t do what you do or think what you think. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.[ed]” ― Malcolm X

“The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.” ― Unknown

“In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“At twenty, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at thirty, we worry about what it’s thinking of us; at forty, we discover it isn’t thinking about us at all.” ― Anonymous

“Do not handicap the children by making their lives too easy.[ed]” ― Robert A. Heinlein

“When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.” ― Voltaire

“My (golf) clubs are well used, but unfortunately not used well.” ― Jack Burrell

“The wish is father to the thought.” ― based on Shakespeare (King Henry IV)

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” ― Augustine of Hippo

“Make your bargain before beginning to plow.” ― Arab Proverb

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot

“It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.” ― Elon Musk

“You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.” ― A Universal Paradox

“To stay out of debt….act your wage!” ― Unknown

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” ― Oscar Wilde

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work.” ― Emile Zola

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” ― Antonio Porchia

“Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.” ― Anonymous

“Life moves fast. Run faster.” ― Frank Iero

“When people say ‘There are other fish in the sea,’ I say ‘She was my sea.’” [ed] ― J. Faulkner

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” ― J.K. Rowling

“Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.” ― William ‘Billy’ Rose