If you’re anything like me, you know that a planner is more than just a tool for organization. I like to think of it as the white paper of an architect, the canvas where we first translate our dreams and ideas into tangible plans before they can be turned into action and materialize into reality. Into our future. Into our lives.
It’s a pretty big deal.
That’s why I want you to wake up each day to a thoughtful quote that not only beautifies your planner but also invigorates your spirit and sets the tone for the day. You’ll be flipping day in and day out between lines of wisdom that nudge you gently toward positivity, resilience, or gratitude, sparking a little flame within you.
This is the experience I wish to share with you through this curated collection of 365 quotes—one for each day of the year.
How I Chose The Quotes
I’ve carefully selected these gems of wisdom, not just for their profound meaning, but for their ability to resonate with us in our daily lives. I’ve also categorized them into 12 themes, providing each month with its unique flavor.
Whether it’s about love in February, perseverance in July, or gratitude in November, each quote is picked to mirror the essence of its month, making your planner a harmonious blend of motivation, reflection, and beauty throughout the year.
How to Use These Quotes in Your Planner
I have carefully chosen these 365 powerful quotes to inspire, challenge, and uplift you throughout the year. Even though the collection is designed around monthly themes, the real beauty is in how versatile these quotes can be.
Here are some suggestions on how you can integrate these quotes into your daily planning and make the most of them:
- Daily Motivation: Begin your day by reading the quote of the day. Allow the message to inspire and guide your thoughts and actions. This simple habit can provide a motivational boost right at the start of your day.
- Reflection & Insight: Use these quotes as a source of daily reflection. Ponder upon the words and let them resonate with you. What does the quote mean to you? How does it relate to your life situation? These reflections can offer insightful perspectives and help you grow personally and professionally.
- Journaling Prompts: If you maintain a journal, these quotes can serve as excellent prompts. You can write about your thoughts on the quote, how it applies to your life, or what lessons you can draw from it that apply to your own life.
- Conversation Starters: These quotes can be used as conversation starters or icebreakers, whether in professional settings, social gatherings, or family dinners. Sharing a meaningful quote can spark interesting discussions and help you connect with others on a deeper level, depending on how deep you can take the conversation from there.
- Affirmations: Some quotes may strike a chord with your personal goals or aspirations. Feel free to use these as affirmations, repeating the ones you like to yourself throughout the day to stay focused and positive.
- Social Media Sharing: If a quote particularly inspires you, share it on your social media platforms. It’s a great way to spread positivity and wisdom among your followers. It may resonate with someone going through a similar situation or in need of that particular message. (You don’t have to, but you might want to support me by sharing the link to this article as well. (as you can probably imagine, this article took, hmmm let’s just say a while, to write. Thanks in advance!)
The best way to use these quotes is the way that works for you. The goal is to enhance your daily life, encourage positivity, and foster a growth mindset.
Let these quotes transform your planner into something you’ll love using by reminding you of the beauty of life and the endless potential within you.
Let’s go.
January: Success in the New Beginnings
1- “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
2- “Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.”
– Joe Paterno
3- “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
– Woody Allen
4- “As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it’s leaning against the right building.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
5- “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill
6- “What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.”
– Gene Fowler
7- “We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.”
– Miguel de Unamuno
8- “I couldn’t wait for success… so I went ahead without it.”
– Jonathan Winters
9- “There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.'”
– Carrie Fisher
10- “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”
– David Frost
11- “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it..”
– Bessie Stanley
12- “I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”
– George Bernard Shaw
13- “Success has made failures of many men.”
– Cindy Adams
14- “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
– Unknown
15- “Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.”
– Walter Cronkite
16- “Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”
– Elbert Hubbard
17- “The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no ‘top.'”
– Nancy Barcus
18- “Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it…. Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.”
– Tennessee Williams
19- “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
– William Feather
20- “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
21- “To freely bloom – that is my definition of success.”
– Gerry Spence
22- “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
– Earl Wilson
23- “Success is 99 percent failure.”
– Soichiro Honda
24- “Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.”
– Jonatan Mårtensson
25- “Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
– Dale Carnegie
26- “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
27- “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”
– Booker T. Washington
28- “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
– George Smith Patton
29- “It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.”
– Unknown
30- “The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.”
– B.C. Forbes
31- “Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”
– Al Bernstein
February: All We Need Is Love
In the month of love, let’s fill that planner with words that remind us never to let a day pass without loving out loud.
In the end, as Ted Mosby likes to say, love is the best thing we do.
1- “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
- Victor Hugo
2- “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
- James Baldwin
3- “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
- Lucille Ball
4- “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
- Helen Keller
5- “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
- Maya Angelou
6- “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
- Henry Miller
7- “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
- Plato
8- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
- David Viscott
9- “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
- Morrie Schwartz
10- “In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”
- Theodor Reik
11- “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return.”
- Natalie Cole
12- “The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
- Elbert Hubbard
13- “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
- Albert Ellis
14- “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
15- “We are most alive when we’re in love.”
- John Updike
16- “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
17- “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
- Washington Irving
18- “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
- Lao Tzu
19- “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
- Dr. Seuss
20- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
- Aristotle
21- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
- Audrey Hepburn
22- “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.”
- T. Tolis
23- “In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.”
- Jack Kornfield
24- “Love alone can rekindle life.”
- Henri Frederic Amiel
25- “Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.”
- Torquato Tasso
26- “Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
- Franklin P. Jones
27- “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
- Henry Miller
28- “Love is a friendship set to music.”
- Joseph Campbell
29- “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
- David Wilkerson
3- March: Salt of Life (Celebrating Women)
You either have that salt in your life, or you are the salt. Either way, let’s take this month to celebrate them, poke some fun at them and remember to be grateful for their existence. Anyone who has a mother, a sister, or a woman significant other, knows why I had to dedicate at least a month of the year to them.
1- “Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece.”
- Unknown
2- “No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.”
– Michelle Obama
– “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
- Oprah Winfrey
4- “A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.”
- Maya Angelou
5- “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”
- Charlotte Whitton
6- “A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.”
- Arnold Haultain
8- “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
8- “There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.”
- Madeleine K. Albright
9- “The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description.”
- Steve Maraboli
10- “A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
11- “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
- Amelia Earhart
12- “The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce.”
- Amy Tenney
13- “Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.”
- Marcel Achard
13- “The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.”
- Gloria Steinem
15- “To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can.”
- Spanish Proverb
16- “You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman.”
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
17- “A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else.”
18- “Never apologize for being a powerful woman.”
19- “She believed she could, so she did.”
20- “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
21- “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”
– Sheryl Sandberg
22- “Here’s to strong women: May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.”
23- “A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.”
– Melinda Gates
24- “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.”
– Diane Mariechild
25- “Women will be hidden no more. We will not remain hidden figures. We have names. It was a woman that gave you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and according to the Bible, it was a woman that gave you Jesus.”
– Janelle Monáe
26- “Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”
– G.D. Anderson
27- “She remembered who she was and the game changed.”
– Lalah Deliah
28- “Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.”
– Serena Williams
29- “I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
– Madonna
30- “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
– Audre Lorde
31- “The best protection any woman can have is courage.”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
4- April: Understanding Time
It’s the time of year when we think, “Q2 already?”
That’s why I decided for this month to be when we look a bit deeper into what time is and why it seems so powerful and even scary sometimes.
1- “Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
- William Faulkner
2- “Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.”
- John Archibald Wheeler
3- “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
- Henry David Thoreau
4- “Time is the fire in which we burn.”
- Delmore Schwartz
5- “Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”
- Dion Boucicault
6- “Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.”
- Faith Baldwin
7- “Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side.”
- The Talmud
8- “Time is making fools of us again.”
- J.K. Rowling
9- “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
- Carl Sandburg
10- “Time heals what reason cannot.”
- Seneca
11- “Time flies on restless pinions – constant never.”
- Friedrich Schiller
12- “The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
- C.S. Lewis
13- “Time is a very healing place, one in which you can grow.”
- Denise Tanner
14- “Time! the corrector when our judgments err.”
- Lord Byron
15- “Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
- Pericles
16- “A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.”
- Tim O’Brien
17- “There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.”
- Mignon McLaughlin
18- “Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.”
- Charles Caleb Colton
19- “Time is the only thief we can’t get justice against.”
- Terri Guillemets
20- “Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst.”
- William Penn
21- “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
- Tennessee Williams
22- “Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right – it holds my golden time!”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
23- “Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.”
- Antonio Porchia
24- “Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time.”
- Edward Fitzgerald
25- “Time, the cradle of hope…. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.”
- Charles Caleb Colton
26- “Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.”
- Domenico Cieri Estrada
27- “Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”
- Denis Waitely
28- “Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
- Charles Caleb Colton
29- “One must learn a different… sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.”
- Sister Mary Paul
30- “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
- Louis Hector Berlioz
May: The Miracle We Call Life
It’s usually at this time of year when the season is changing and how my days and weeks look like is also changing, I begin to ask some of the deeper existential questions. I either start to get low mood for a while, or I start to appreciate life more, depending on my mindset.
I tried to curate a list that will help you achieve the latter.
1- “Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
- Hans Christian Andersen
2- “Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I am with you kid. Let’s go.'”
- Maya Angelou
3- “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
- T.S. Eliot
4- “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
- Attributed to both Ludwig Wittgenstein and Robert Byrne
5- “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.'”
- Erma Bombeck
6- “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”
- Danny Kaye
7- “I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.”
- Charles Schulz
8- “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.”
- Lillian Dickson
9- “Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.”
- Antonio Porchia
10- “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.”
- Jack Handey
11- “Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.”
- Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
12- “To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.”
- Havelock Ellis
13- “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
- Elwyn Brooks White
14- “Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.”
- Terri Guillemets
15- “Life is an incurable Disease.”
- Abraham Cowley
16- “My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.”
- Ashleigh Brilliant
17- “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
- Grandma Moses
18- “Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.”
- Christopher Morley
19- “My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
- Cary Grant
20- “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
21- “Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.”
- Unknown
22- “Life is not a final. It’s daily pop quizzes.”
- Unknown
23- “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
- Albert Camus
24- “In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.”
- Kathy Norris
25- “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
- Emily Dickinson
26- “Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.”
- Bruce Crampton
27- “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
- Henry David Thoreau
28- “Life is a cement trampoline.”
- Howard Nordberg
29- “As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.”
- Unknown
30- “God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.”
- Unknown
31- “I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.”
- Rupert Brooke
June: Without Freedom, Do We Really Have Anything?
As we soak in the warmth of early summer, we should take time to recognize and celebrate our freedoms and remind ourselves that they are not a gift, but a right we have earned through persistence, resilience, and courage.
Thus, celebrating our freedom is more than just acknowledging it; it’s about using it wisely to contribute positively to our personal lives and our society as well as respecting others’ freedom.
1- “The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.”
- Samuel Hendel
2- “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.”
- Thomas Paine
3- “History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.”
- Charles de Gaulle
4- “Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
5- “Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,… of searching and experimenting,… of saying No to any authority – literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.”
- Ignazio Silone
6- “Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.”
- Ambrose Bierce
7- “The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.”
- Thomas Campbell
8- “Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
9- “Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.”
- Gerard K. O’Neill
10- “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
- Abraham Lincoln
11- “I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
- Simone de Beauvoir
12- “My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
- Adlai Stevenson
13- “It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”
- Author unknown
14- “You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.”
- Robert Frost
15- “For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
16- “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
- Thomas Paine
17- “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
18- “We have to call it “freedom”: who’d want to die for “a lesser tyranny”?”
- Mignon McLaughlin
19- “Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”
- Moshe Dayan
20- “There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.”
- Charles Kingsley
21- “No one is free when others are oppressed.”
- Author Unknown
22- “Freedom means choosing your burden.”
- Hephzibah Menuhin
23- “Most people want security in this world, not liberty.”
- H.L. Mencken
24- “We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.”
- Eric Hoffer
25- “Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.”
- Author Unknown
26- “Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.”
- Jeffrey Borenstein
27- “Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
28- “Freedom is not enough.”
- Lyndon B. Johnson
29- “Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
- Woodrow Wilson
30- “The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.”
- Adlai Stevenson
July: Perseverance Gets You There
It’s the “mid-year” crisis when we tend to need these motivational pushes.
The way it used to be is that especially if you live in a cold country, you tend to feel happy when July comes around. However, with climate change, everyone seems to be getting irritated and thin-skinned with the approach of the scorching time of the year.
So let’s remind ourselves this month what happens when let perservere rule our routines.
1- “Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
2- “Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.” – André A. Jackson.
3- “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” – Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life.
4- “The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.” – Unknown.
5- “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich.
6- “The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.” – Henry Ward Beecher.
7- “Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.” – Unknown.
8- “When the world says, ‘Give up,’ Hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.'” – Unknown.
9- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb.
10- “The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.” – Lucretius.
11- “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” – Buddhist Saying.
12- “Perseverance… keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.” – William Shakespeare.
13- “Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” – Unknown.
14- “Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.” – Josh Billings.
15- “I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.” – Unknown.
16- “Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald.
17- “The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.” – Unknown.
18- “You learn you can do your best even when it’s hard, even when you’re tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.” – Joe Namath.
19- “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering.
20- “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” – Thomas Foxwell Buxton.
21- “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” – Earl Nightingale.
22- “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt.
23- “Never stop pedaling to power your dreams.” – Terri Guillemets.
24- “He conquers who endures.” – Persius.
25- “When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.” – Unknown.
26- “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.” – Unknown.
27- “Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” – Dale Carnegie.
28- “Saints are sinners who kept on going.” – Robert Louis Stevenson.
29- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar.
30- “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.” – Vivian Komori.
31- “Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” – Christopher Morley.
August: Time for Adventures
It’s the most common time of year for vacations and adventurous travels. That’s why I decided to allocate the calendar month to remind us that, whether we’re traveling this year or not, the concept of adventure should always remain part of our experience of life.
1- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller.
2- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey.
3- “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart.
4- “Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” – Eckhart Tolle.
5- “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles in life.” – John Amatt.
6- “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt.
7- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost.
8- “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd.
9- “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway.
10- “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
11- “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Shahir Zag.
12- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu.
13- “Adventures do occur, but not punctually.” – E.M. Forster.
14- “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice.
15- “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson.
16- “Life is full of adventure. There’s no such thing as a clear pathway.” – Guy Laliberte.
17- “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau.
18- “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” – André Gide.
19- “The best journeys answer questions that in the beginning, you didn’t even think to ask.” – Jeff Johnson.
20- “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S Eliot.
21- “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark.
22- “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch.
23- “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
24- “All you need to know is that it’s possible.” – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker.
25- “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor.
26- “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Unknown.
27- “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Unknown.
28- “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen.
29- “Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.” – Hypatia.
30- “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss.
31- “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller.
September: Change is the Only Constant in Life
I want us to take the opportunity this month to not only start accepting change but rather embrace it.
It’s only when we realize that the opposite of change is stagnancy, that we start to shift our mindset and how we view it.
1- “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy.
2- “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn.
3- “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein.
4- “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill.
5- “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts.
6- “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” – Philip Pullman.
7- “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.
8- “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou.
9- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
10- “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” – Benjamin Disraeli.
11- “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy.
12- “We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” – Carl Jung.
13- “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw.
14- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead.
15- “The only constant in life is change.” – Heraclitus.
16- “In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow.
17- “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.” – Robin Sharma.
18- “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky.
19- “All great changes are preceded by chaos.” – Deepak Chopra.
20- “When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl.
21- “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir.
22- “Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.” – Elon Musk.
23- “Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.” – Seth Godin.
24- “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” – Henri Bergson.
25- “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol.
26- “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell.
27- “Change is not a process for the impatient.” – Barbara Reinhold.
28- “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” – Tuli Kupferberg.
29- “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” – Nathaniel Branden.
30- “Don’t be afraid of change. You may end up losing something good, but you will probably end up gaining something better.” – Unknown.
October: Harvest & Abundance.
“I’m so glad I live in world where there are Octobers.”
Let’s take this chance then to harvest our accomplishments and reap what we’ve sown, recognizing the wealth of good that exists in our lives, and cultivating an attitude of gratitude for the gifts we continually receive.
1- “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino.
2- “In all things, give thanks for this is the will of God.” – Paul the Apostle.
3- “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
4- “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn.
5- “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” – William Blake.
6- “The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero.
7- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson.
8- “Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.” – Wayne Dyer.
9- “When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” – Tony Robbins.
10- “The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.” – Marianne Williamson.
11- “What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.” – Meister Eckhart.
12- “In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” – Albert Clarke.
13- “Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.” – Bryant H. McGill.
14- “Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.” – Eileen Caddy.
15- “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” – Jim Bishop.
16- “Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.” – Suze Orman.
17- “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu.
18- “Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest.” – Ralph Ransom.
19- “Wealth flows from energy and ideas.” – William Feather.
20- “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus.
21- “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.” – The Bible, Matthew 7:18.
22- “The universe operates through dynamic exchange… giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. And in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.” – Deepak Chopra.
23- “The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.” – James E. Faust.
24- “Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.” – Osho.
25- “Gratitude is the open door to abundance.” – Unknown.
26- “The harvest depends more on the richness of the sower’s spirit than on the richness of the soil.” – Thomas S. Monson.
27- “Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.” – Alan Cohen.
28- “Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.” – Madame de Stael.
29- “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine.
30- “The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.” – Richard M. DeVos.
31- “Harvest is real, but never without seed and wait.” – Yasmin Mogahed.
November: Only One Month Dedicated To Gratitude?
We should be counting or blessings year round, but November is the month when we celebrate feeling grateful. That’s how I see it anyway.
Being grateful is not about turning a blind eye to everything we don’t have or haven’t achieved yet, it’s about realizing and appreciating that our fate is more than enough for us. More than we can ever fully make use of.
It was until I realized that, that I was able to become really grateful for what’s in my orbit.
1- “Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.” – Alfred Painter
2- “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?'” – William A. Ward
3- “The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.” – H.U. Westermayer
4- “Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.” – G.B. Stern
5- “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.” – Meister Eckhart
6- “Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” – Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French
7- “When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?” – G.K. Chesterton
8- “The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” – John E. Southard
9- “Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.” – Kak Sri
10- “If you have lived, take thankfully the past.” – John Dryden
11- “As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.” – Terri Guillemets
12- “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” – G.K. Chesterton
13- “You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” – G.K. Chesterton
14- “For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
15- “If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” – Frank A. Clark
16- “The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!” – Henry Ward Beecher
17- “Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.” – Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear
18- “Praise the bridge that carried you over.” – George Colman
19- “If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.” – Robert Quillen
20- “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus
21- “What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.” – Bertolt Brecht, Jungle of Cities, 1924
22- “Gratitude is the best attitude.” – Author Unknown
23- “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” – W.T. Purkiser
24- “We thank Thee, O Father of all, for… all the soul-help that sad souls understand.” – Will Carleton
25- “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” – Thornton Wilder
26- “Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.” – Edwin Arlington Robinson
27- “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” – William Faulkner
28- “The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.” – Neale Donald Walsch
29- “If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” – Gerald Good
30- “Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.” – Thomas Fuller
December: Family, Joy & Festivity
As the year draws to a close, December brings with it the warmth of family, the joy of togetherness, and the magical spirit of the holiday season. It’s a time for festive celebrations, cherishing our loved ones, and a spirit of joy.
As we light up our homes, I hope these quotes would illuminate your thoughts, hype you up and remind you of the importance of family and maybe spark an idea for conversation during a holiday dinner.
1- “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden
2- “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
3- “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
4- “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” – Anthony Brandt
5- “Family is the heart of a home.” – Unknown
6- “Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” – David Ogden Stiers
7- “Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” – Brad Henry
8- “Family: where life begins and love never ends.” – Unknown
9- “The love of family is life’s greatest blessing.” – Unknown
10- “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw
11- “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
12- “Family is a gift that lasts forever.” – Unknown
13- “We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” – Coco (Disney Movie)
14- “To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” – Barbara Bush
15- “The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” – Dodie Smith
16- “In time of test, family is best.” – Burmese Proverb
17- “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson
18- “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
19- “We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
20- “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” – Karl Barth
21- “The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” – W. C. Jones
22- “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie
23- “Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” – Calvin Coolidge
24- “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hills
25- “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale
26- “Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” – Mary Ellen Chase
27- “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” – Alexander Smith
28- “At Christmas, all roads lead home.” – Marjorie Holmes
29- “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” – Charles M. Schulz
30- “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens
31- “May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.” – Mary Anne Radmacher