On the Twenty-Seventh Day of Christ*&^%$, TiZ reveals to you...

Twenty-seven quotes from 2012...

Gifted doesn't mean giving it away for free. --Christianne Tisdale

Everyone deserves a second chance...maybe.  Third and fourth chances...rarely. --Christianne Tisdale

For people like us sometimes the only thing we really own is our dignity, and when I grow old I would like to have as much as Mrs. Matthew Murphy across the street.  --Neil Simon

i imagine that yes is the only living thing.--e. e. cummings

Grace, It's Christmas, for goodness sake.  Think about the Baby Jesus: up there in that tower, letting his hair down so that the three wise men can climb up and spin the dreidel and see if there are six more weeks of winter.
--Karen Walker from Will and Grace

The first step towards the solution of any problem is optimism.- John Baines

Mary Magdalene, where you at, bitch? --Galileroy...on Key and Peele

wherever you are, be all there.--Jim Elliot

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.--John Wanamaker

...and a writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.--Neil Simon

It's all about people, people!--Christianne Tisdale

For the first time in the history of media, those that are able to consume the  media are also able to create it. That's a powerful (and thus frightening) choice.--Seth Godin

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.--Gail Sheehy

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist.--Ananda Coomaraswamy

Last night as I lay sleeping I dreamt that there was a beehive here inside my heart and the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from all my failures.--Machado de Assis

Don't be defeatist, dear.  It's very middle class.--The Dowager Countess

Always associate yourself with those that know more than you do, who do it better than you, who see more clearly than you.--Dwight D. Eisenhower 
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.--Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook

Self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth.--Joan Didion

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.--Oscar Wilde 

If the angel deigns to come, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears, but by your humble resolve to be always beginning: to be a beginner.--Rainer Maria Rilke

There is no room for should.  There is and is not.  There's doing or not doing. Commitment or none at all.  There is no room for anything in between. Definitely not should.--Christianne Tisdale

We are here on earth to help others.  What the others are here for, I have no idea.--W.H. Auden

We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.--William James

The more you complain, the more you complain.--Christianne Tisdale

Do less...allow more.--Anonymous (but heard from Julie Reiber Bennett)