Yearlong Calendar Quotes & Sayings

There is true freedom in letting go. — Amy Dickinson

I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves. — Jerry Garcia

The things ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good. — Baruch Spinoza

What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want. — Swami Vivekananda

Look ahead otherwise you won't get there — Ana Marie Velazquez

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign. — Squeak Carnwath

There's an all too human tendency to believe that what we know and experience now is the way it will and always should be. — Nick Bilton

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future. — Michel De Montaigne

The Impossible Will Not always Only be Possible If we Ourselves Create IT. — Jan Jansen

This is one of the most crucial things that the newcomer needs to know about Barthelme. Though his stuff is sometimes difficult to puncture, and sometimes difficult to follow, while you're finding your way, he's always grinning at you in a warm and very compassionate way. The reader gets the feeling that the author is a nice man. That he knows when he's being difficult and when he's full of shit. Knows how much of this and how much of that you can actually take. He differs from some of his contemporaries, and from many other forgers of new prose styles, in that he doesn't ever give off the impression that he takes himself overseriously, and he seems genuinely to care whether or not his work is being read by you. He is a social writer. A writer who seems to be in the next room, waiting for you to finish and tell him what you thought. — Donald Barthelme

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. — Isaiah Berlin

He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man. — Jim Croce