Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from all of us at Words We Heart! May your new year be blessed with much happiness, wonderful words and many fantastic life changing moments! 

I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.

– Neil Gaiman

things worthwhile

‎"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death."

Vision

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Proverb

Happy Girls

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"I believe that happy girls are the prettiest."

- Audrey Hepburn

It t'was

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

"Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"

-Clement Clarke Moor

Words We Heart hopes you have an amazing Christmas, whether its spent in a winter wonderland, or sunbathing on the beach and if you don't celebrate Christmas we hope that you have a very happy holidays. xxx

Magic

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If you believe in yourself and a tiny pinch of magic, all your dreams can come true.

Maya

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

—	Maya Angelou

What's your attitude

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
– Kahlil Gibran

Santa

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
Shirley Temple

To love at all...

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change – it will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, and irredeemable.”

–C.S. Lewis

Courage

Submission: New beginnings

Today is a very special day, because we have our very first reader submission!

Thank you Emilie for sending us this lovely quote and picture!

 

You can't change endings but you can start new beginnings.

Life

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

One life

 Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you only have one life to live and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

Just Living

A secret

"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe."
— Neil Gaiman (A Game of You)

It Will Be Worth It

Endure Eternally

"But I have lived, and have not lived in vain;

My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire;

And my frame perish even in conquering pain;

But there is that within me which shall tire

Torture and Time, and breath when I expire."

- Lord Byron

Mysterious Girl

“You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.”

Flip a Coin...

When you have to make a hard decision, flip a coin.

Why?

Because when that coin is in the air...

You suddenly know what you're hoping for

True Love

“I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

- Nicholas Sparks

Growing Up

"Growing old is mandatory, 

Growing up is optional. "

- Chili Davis 

Love Us? Now you can Like Us!

Just wanted to let you all know that we now have a Facebook page! 

We would greatly appreciate it if you would head on over and like us!

On this page you will be able to share your favorite quotes with others, and we will totally post them here, linking back to you! 

Thank you so much! Hope you have all had a lovely weekend!

Alice

"'If everybody minded their own business,' the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl, 'the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.'"

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 5

Dreams

Theft is okay sometimes!

Hero

“Maybe sometimes you have to stop waiting for someone to come along and fix what’s wrong. Maybe you have to stop feeling sorry for yourself and realize that no one else has the answer... Sometimes you have to be your own hero.”

-Unknown

Keep Fighting

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

- E.E. Cummings

Happiness

"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows."

- Audrey Hepburn

Learn to go

Hope

I’ve heard that it’s possible to grow up - I’ve just never met anyone who’s actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don’t go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope… - Grey's Anatomy

I Like Most

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person."

Signs

You can ask the universe for all the signs you want, but ultimately, we see what we want to see when we're ready to see it - HIMYM

add to your life

"Write down in a notebook five positive thoughts or feelings that you experience each day. Stretch your horizons and follow each with a statement of a new dream, idea or challenge to add to your life." - Ardath Rodale

Regret

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Happiness

Unreal

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”

bad fashion

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Connected

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“Spend five minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.”

- Dalai Lama

Remember

"Remember, remember the fifth of November,

The gunpowder treason and plot,

I know of no reason

Why the gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot."

Risk It

becoming what we want...

"We become what we want to be

by consistently being what we want to become each day."

-Richard G. Scott

Laugh

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“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”

- Unknown

Trust Life

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It Goes On

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." - Robert Frost

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Happiness Trail

Have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling. -Elizabethtown

Be Awake

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“I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.”

- Jeff Buckley

Precious Time

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"We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives."

- Maya Angelou

Amuse yourself

Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
- Voltaire

Perfection

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

Love Another

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"There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."

— Nicholas Sparks