Pearls

As each new year approaches I tend to find myself contemplating much about my life, its direction, and its meaning. Maybe you do, too. I mentioned in a previous blog that I started a "To Do" list in a book when I went away to university. I have recently pulled it off the book shelf and dusted it off. Time to resume my "to do" activities...that is one of my goals in the new year...to keep my "Journal of Life" with me and aim to complete as many of the "to do" things as I can in the coming year. When I was reading through it I also came across pages and pages of quotes. I had started writing quotes in the book over the years that I think hold some wisdom for me, too...quotes that can inspire me and remind me that life is more than where I am at the moment.

As we enter into the new year and new year's resolutions abound, I would like to leave four of my favourite quotes here for you as you contemplate all of the possibilities of 2008:


Ask yourself: "What have I missed out on simply because I was too afraid of what others would think?"


If you are never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.


Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.


We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.


Hugs,
Liz