Quotes for the New Year

We must learn to look on plants not as mere points of color, but as old friends on whose coming we can rely, and who, returning with the recurring seasons, bring back with them pleasant memories of past years.
Henry Bright

To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake (1757-1827)

Oh this is the joy of rose: that it blows and goes.
Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis

All the darkness of the world cannot put out the light of one small candle.
Anonymous

To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.
Yehudi Menuhin

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills

True friendship is a fabric that nothing can unravel.
Lynne Ames

You can’t always change circumstances, but you can always change your reaction to them.
Lynne Ames

Sorrow is a fruit; god does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak
Victor Hugo

It is very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimations, and yours too.
Josh Billings

If I knew I should die tomorrow I’d still plant an apple tree today.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is the promise of daylight.
The Times
London
December 24, 1984

Learn from the past. Do not come to the end of your life only to find you have not lived.
Clearwater

Never forget that the most powerful force in earth is love.
Nelson Rockerfeller (1908-1979)