January Quotes of the Day

1. “We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins,

carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains.

93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames,

we are all just stars that have people names.”

— Nikita Gill, 93 Percent Stardust

2. “Everything's broken! But not our spirits."

— Matthew Healy 

3. “The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.”

 — Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

4. “I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.”

— Sophia Amoruso 

5. “I want to write a novel about silence. The things people don’t say.”

— Virginia Woolf 

6. “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

7. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”

—  Albert Camus, The Stranger

8.“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.”

— Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

9.“I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.”

— Marilyn Monroe

10. “There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything.”

— Luna Adriana

11. “Sunshine all the time makes a desert”

— Arab proverb

12. “I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”

— Madonna

13. “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

— Vincent van Gogh

14. “Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.”

— Robert Henri

15. “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

16.“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture  

17. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

— William Arthur Ward

18. “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

—  J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

19. “I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”

— Audrey Hepburn

20. "An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.”

—Emil Zatopek

21. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

22. “Black is the queen of colors.”

— Auguste Rodin

23. "Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace."

— Unknown 

24. “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”

— Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

25. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

26.“All the hardest, coldest people you meet, 

were once as soft as water.
And that’s the tragedy of living.”

— Iain S. Thomas

27. “Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”

— Deepak Chopra 

28. “I was quiet, but I was not blind.”

— Fanny Price, Mansfield Park

29. “It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”

— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

30. “Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.”

— Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

31. "Moods of the sea

change quickly

like me."

— Unknown