Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living.

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

And as he had seen her that day, so she had remained; never quite the same height, yet never below it: generous, faithful, unwearied; but so lacking in imagination, so incapable of growth, that the world of her youth had fallen into pieces and rebuilt itself without her ever being conscious of the change.

It seems so to me, said his wife, as if she were producing a new thought.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Shame can be removed, and you can still be you. Despite your feeling that your destiny and shame's destiny are identical—that if shame no longer exists, you won't either—the reality is that you will be more you without shame.

If you know you have been forgiven, you will forgive and reconcile with others.

If you want to know more about yourself, turn to Jesus.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.