May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

---

Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. — Ashton Kutcher

---

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

---

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

---

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. ― Paulo Coelho

---

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. — Ayn Rand

---

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth. – Mallory Hopkins

---

Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become: a free ride until everything melts down into the indistinct and indefinite, while walking up to the ultimate gate of non-existence. ― Erik Pevernagie

---

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

---

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ― Margaret Mead

---