..take a joke, not make one

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. 

-Max Eastman, journalist and poet (1883-1969)

same sky, but...

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. 

-Konrad Adenauer, statesman (1876-1967)

...feel your bare feet

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. 

-Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

What makes you different?

...accomplice of liars

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. 

-Charles Peguy, poet and essayist (1873-1914)

...memories are fuel

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. 

-Haruki Murakami, writer (b. 12 Jan 1949)

...humor & mockery

Sometimes laughter hurts, but humor and mockery are our only weapons. 

-Cabu (pen name of Jean Cabut), cartoonist and co-founder of Charlie Hebdo (1938-2015)

...look the other way

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. 

-Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)

...unconscious cruelty

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them.

-Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

...mind of Can't

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safe comfort

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth -- and truth rewarded me.
-Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (1908-1986)

...can alter

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. 

-William James, psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910)

Daily....

...strength / weakness

"Kindness is a strength, not a weakness."

~ Orly Wahba

Humility vs arrogance

...a life worthwhile

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

~ Albert Einstein

Kindness in...

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

~ Lao Tzu

Nothing changed physically, except belief.

I love this story because whenever someone does the "impossible," others see themselves in that someone.

"I can't" → "they did" "They did" → "I might" "I might" → "I will"

Key to progress = PROCESS

....never did

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

~ William Shakespeare

...fresh beginning

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

~ T.S. Eliot

..wait for people?

"You can't always sit in your corner of the forest and wait for people to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."

~ Winnie the Pooh

8 Unconventional Ideas to Make 2026 a Smashing Success

1. Enhance your New Year's goals with a yearly theme.

2. Focus on the process, not just the outcome.

3. Turn vague resolutions into specific goals or habits.

4. Tie each of your New Year's goals an anchoring belief or core value.

5. Limit the number of New Year's resolutions you set.

6. Connect your roles to goals.

7. Make contingency plans for your goals.

8. Declare a "Year of Action" + get out of paralysis.

- Dean Bokhari

...urgent and not on important

"Most of us spend too much on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."

~ Stephen Covey

Happy New Year

"Change, by its very nature, is threatening but it is also often productive." 

– Betty Ford