Today

"When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been."

- Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”

- Edward R. Murrow

"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

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."

- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."

- Franz Kafka

"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."

- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

“For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning."

― T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding

“Hope

Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,

Whispering 'it will be happier'...”

― Alfred Lord Tennyson