The subject for today is patience:

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~John Quincy Adams

Patience is also a form of action.
~Auguste Rodin

~From The Quote Garden.

The subject for today is spring:

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”
~Robin Williams

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
~Proverb

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.
~Mark Twain

~From The Quote Garden.

Today’s quotes are about excuses:

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
~Don Wilder and Bill Rechin

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
~Edward R. Murrow

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.
~Author Unknown

~From The Quote Garden.

The subject for today is the new year:

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
~Bill Vaughan

New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
~Mark Twain

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

~From The Quote Garden.

The subject for today is food:

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
~Jim Davis

As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
~Buddy Hackett

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
~Calvin Trillin

~From The Quote Garden.

The subject for today is kindness:

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
~Samuel Johnson

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
~Author Unknown

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~Plato

~From The Quote Garden.

The subject for today is laughter:

Laughter is an instant vacation.
~Milton Berle

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
~Yiddish Proverb

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
~Bob Newhart

~From The Quote Garden.

The subject for today is reading:

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
–Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu (Pensées Diverses)

…it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one’s life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
–Jane Austen

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
–Harper Lee

–From The Quote Lady.

The subject for today is coffee:

A morning without coffee is like sleep. 
~Author Unknown

Caffeine isn’t a drug, it’s a vitamin! 
~Author Unknown

Deja Brew:  The feeling that you’ve had this coffee before. 
~Author Unknown

~From The Quote Garden.

The subject for today is passion:

Follow your passion, and success will follow you. 
~Arthur Buddhold

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.  And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. 
~Harold Whitman

Passion is universal humanity.  Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. 
~Honoré de Balzac

~From The Quote Garden.