"We spend January 1 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
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Using just a few short lines, this poet captures the beauty, elegance and joyous movement potential of winter’s arrival:
“Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.”
– Bill Morgan, Jr.
On All Hallows Eve folks of every age can get in on the fun, as depicted by this playful quip:
"A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween."
— Erma Bombeck
After a long hot summer, the coming of fall inspires reflection and a mellow sense of optimism. So, bring on the poets!
"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face."
– John Donne
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
– George Eliot
"How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
– John Burroughs
"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn."
– Elizabeth Lawrence
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"Behold, my friends, the Spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun."
– Sitting Bull
Rather than being neglected, our muscles and joints should be used in accordance with each individual’s ability to do so safely. This sentiment is nicely underscored by the following quotation:
"Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips."
– Terri Guillemets
As this year draws to a close, we’d like to leave you with a warm thought, a happy thought, and an uplifting thought with which to ring in the new year!
"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
– Quoted by Francis Bacon in Apothegm
"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."
– Emily Dickinson
"When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day."
– Marty Bucella
The American journalist and author Mignon McLaughlin, who lived from 1913 to 1983, penned these inspirational words in 1960:
"People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage."
– Mignon McLaughlin
The English poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834), along with his close friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the English Romantic Movement. Well known for his poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge also shared his thoughts on the changing seasons of life:
"The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky."
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"If we’re not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn’t settle for junk food."
— Pioneer of the Olympic sport of triathlon, Sally Edwards
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