Making resolutions is a

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. Eric Zorn

Maybe this year, we

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential. Ellen Goodman

We spend January 1st

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential. Ellen Goodman

A happy New Year!

A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I’ve played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year. Edgar Guest

Above all, don\’t lie

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. Fyodor Dostoevsky

He who breaks a

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. Farquhar McGillivray Knowles