31 January 2021
"Call it a clan,
call it a network,
call it a tribe,
call it a family.
Whatever you call it,
whoever you are,
you need one." ~Jane Howard
30 January 2021
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." ~Khalil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923
29 January 2021
"...but boys will be boys, and so will girls too, for that matter." ~Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal, 1879
28 January 2021
"It was nice growing up with someone like you — someone to lean on, someone to count on… someone to tell on!" ~Author unknown
27 January 2021
"God bless your tender heart." ~Thomas M'Combie, 1845
26 January 2021
"Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are young and free;"
25 January 2021
"Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends." ~Robert Brault
24 January 2021
"Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur?" ~Irish Saying
23 January 2021
"One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it." ~Sidney Howard
22 January 2021
"Life is more fun if you play games." ~Roald Dahl
21 January 2021
"It must be love, love, love
Nothing more
Nothing less
Love is the best." ~Labi Siffre
20 January 2021
"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom." ~Umberto Eco
19 January 2021
"Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride." ~John F. Kennedy
18 January 2021
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
17 January 2021
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time." ~John Lubbock
16 January 2021
"The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child." ~Joe Houldsworth
15 January 2021
"It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't." ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
14 January 2021
"The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's." ~Polish Proverb
13 January 2021
“You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt." ~Author Unknown
12 January 2021
“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” ~Sarah Dessen
11 January 2021
"Thorns and stings
And those such things
Just make stronger
Our angel wings." ~Terri Guillemets, "Pierced flight," 2003
10 January 2021
"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog." ~Edward Hoagland
9 January 2021
"Some pursue happiness, others create it." ~Author unknown
8 January 2021
"There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh." ~Françoise Sagan
7 January 2021
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." ~Anton Chekhov, 1898
6 January 2021
"Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows." ~John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells
5 January 2021
"I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes." ~Richard Steele
4 January 2021
"It's nice to have friends, but it's better when your friends are family." ~The Middle, Jana Hunter and Mitch Hunter
3 January 2021
"Joy is not in things, it is in us." ~Charles Wagner
2 January 2021
"Stay kind. It makes you beautiful." ~Author unknown
1 January 2021
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker