January 28
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

February 5
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
— Carl Sandburg

March 2
The brain is wider than the sky; for put them side by side the one the other will contain with ease — and you beside.
— Emily Dickinson

April 7
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
— Anton Chekhov

May 18
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
— Leo Tolstoy

June 4
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
— George Bernard Shaw

July 7
Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.
— Mark Twain

August 3
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
— Zora Neale Hurston

September 2
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
— Charlotte Bronte

October 11
But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.
— Anne Bronte

November 7
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

December 3
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
— Truman Capote