The last several years I have received a small calendar from our 'Australian  foreign exchange daughter Karen and her family for Christmas'. They included notes of plans they had for the year; places where they were traveling, penned in.

This year because they are living and working in the United Kingdom, I got a different one titled, "The Irish Get Up and Go Diary 2015". Along with entry possibilities, it is filled with quotes and cute graphics.

Here are a couple of quotes from January:

"With every rising of the sun,

think of your life as just begun."

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,

is always just beyond your grasp,

but which, if you will sit down quietly,

may alight upon you."

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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"If you don't like the road you're walking,

start paving another one."

~ Dolly Parton

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"When the world says, 'Give up,"

Hope whispers, "Try one more time."

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(With a cute horse & rider graphic):

"You can lead humans to knowledge

but you cannot make them think."

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