14/365 - There's a Story (Mitch Albom)

“But there's a story behind everything. 

How a picture got on a wall. 

How a scar got on your face. 

Sometimes the stories are simple, 

and sometimes they are hard 

and heartbreaking.

 But behind all your stories 

 is always your mother's story,

 because hers is where yours begin.”

  - Mitch Albom

For One More Day

13/365 - If you want to be Happy (Leo Tolstoy)

“If you want to be happy, 

Be.”

  - Leo Tolstoy

12/365 - Without a Heart (Jodi Picoult)

“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself,

 he would die. 

Maybe not immediately, 

maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, 

but it would happen.

 You couldn't live for very long 

without a heart.”

  - Jodi Picoult

11/365 - Things Change (Stephen Chbosky)

“Things change. 

And friends leave. 

Life doesn't stop for anybody.”

  - Stephen Chbosky

 The Perks of Being a Wallflower

10/365 - People are Beautiful (Markus Zusak)

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
 

Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
 

Just in what they are.”

  - Markus Zusak

I am the Messenger

9/365 - A Thousand Lives (George R.R. Martin)

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, 

said Jojen.

 The man who never reads

lives only one.”

  - George R.R. Martin

  A Dance With Dragons

8/365 - Nothing is Impossible (Audrey Hepburn)

“Nothing is impossible,

 the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”

  - Audrey Hepburn

7/365 - Love is Kind (Holy Bible)

“Love is patient, love is kind. 

It does not envy, it does not boast,

 it is not proud.

 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,

it is not easily angered, 

it keeps no record of wrongs. 

Love does not delight in evil 

but rejoices with the truth. 

It always protects, always trusts, 

always hopes, always perseveres.”

  - Holy Bible:

 New International Version

6/365 - Inside his Skin (Harper Lee)

“You never really understand a person

 until you consider things from his point of view.

Until you climb inside his skin 

and walk around in it.”

- Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

5/365 - I Speak to Everyone (Albert Einstein)

“I speak to everyone in the same way, 

whether he is the garbage man

 or the president of the university.”

- Albert Einstein

4/365 - To be Apart (Nicholas Sparks)

 “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, 

but that doesn't make you love them any less. 

Sometimes you love them more.”
 

  - Nicholas Sparks

The Last Song

3/365 - Being a Woman (Joseph Conrad)

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, 

since it consists principally

in dealing with men.”

  - Joseph Conrad

2/365 - I solemnly Swear (J.K. Rowling)

“I solemnly swear 

that I am up to no good.”

- J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

1/365 - All that is Gold (J.R.R. Tolkien)

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

  - J.R.R. Tolkien

  The Fellowship of the Ring

365/365 - To Blossom (Anaïs Nin)

“And the day came 

when the risk

 to remain tight in a bud 

was more painful 

than the risk it took 

to blossom.”

  Anaïs Nin

Thank you for spending another year with me!

May each day of your life 

bring you new Blossoms

and eternal Sunshine.

With all the Love in the World,

Kimie

xx

364/365 - All Within Yourself (Marcus Aurelius)

“Very little is needed 

to make a happy life; 

it is all within yourself

 in your way of thinking.”

Marcus Aurelius

363/365 - The Greatest Blessings (Seneca)

“True happiness 

is to enjoy the present,

 without anxious dependence 

upon the future, 

not to amuse ourselves 

with either hopes or fears 

but to rest satisfied 

with what we have,

 which is sufficient,

 for he that is so 

 wants nothing. 

The greatest blessings of mankind

 are within us 

and within our reach. 

A wise man 

is content with his lot, 

whatever it may be,

 without wishing for what he has not.”

Seneca

362/365 - Don't be disheartened (Daisaku Ikeda)

“Even if things don't unfold 

the way you expected, 

don't be disheartened 

or give up. 

One who continues to advance

 will win in the end.”

Daisaku Ikeda

361/365 - Happiness is (E.L. Konigsburg)

“Happiness is excitement

 that has found a settling down place,

 but there is always a little corner

 that keeps flapping around.”

E.L. Konigsburg

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler

360/365 - Getting what you want (Dale Carnegie)

“Success

 is getting what you want..

Happiness 

is wanting what you get.”

Dale Carnegie

359/365 - The ability to deal (Steve Maraboli)

“Happiness 

is not the absence of problems, 

it's the ability to deal with them.”

  Steve Maraboli

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

358/365 - Abandon the False (Nisargadatta Maharaj)

“It is always the false 

that makes you suffer,

 the false desires and fears,

 the false values and ideas, 

the false relationships between people.

 Abandon the false 

and you are free of pain;

 truth makes happy, 

 truth liberates.”

  Nisargadatta Maharaj

357/365 - I'm a Human Being (Malcom X)

“I'm for truth,

 no matter who tells it. 

I'm for justice, 

no matter who it is for or against. 

I'm a human being,

 first and foremost, 

and as such I'm for whoever

 and whatever

 benefits humanity as a whole.”

  Malcolm X

356/365 - You may find comfort (C.S. Lewis)

“If you look for truth, 

you may find comfort in the end;

 if you look for comfort 

you will not get either comfort or truth 

only soft soap

 and wishful thinking to begin,

 and in the end, 

despair.”

C.S. Lewis

355/365 - Then you are a writer (Ernest Hemingway)

“All good books are alike

in that they are truer 

than if they had really happened 

and after you are finished reading one 

you will feel that all that happened to you

 and afterwards it all belongs to you: 

the good and the bad, 

the ecstasy, 

the remorse and sorrow, 

the people and the places 

 and how the weather was. 

If you can get

 so that you can give that to people,

then you are a writer.”

  Ernest Hemingway

354/365 - You cannot control (Lemony Snicket)

“It is difficult, 

when faced with a situation 

you cannot control,

 to admit you can do nothing.”

Lemony Snicket

Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

353/365 - To be understood (George Orwell)

“Perhaps 

one did not want to be loved 

so much as to be understood.”

  George Orwell

1984

352/365 - The truth about yourself (Virginia Woolf)

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself 

you cannot tell it about other people.”

  Virginia Woolf