Get busy living

Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
Adonais    — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sleep:  Death without dying - living, but not life.
— Edwin Arnold

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Choruses from 'The Rock'   — George Eliot

My soul, do not seek immortal life,
but exhaust the realm of the possible.
— Pindar

I think Springtime is a much better time of year for resolutions.

The earth is waking up, the trees are blossoming,

there is promise in the air all around us

as the sleepiness and silence of winter falls away

and is replaced by birdsong and new life.

I feel more inspired in these first weeks of spring,

and more confident that whatever resolutions I set for myself can be met
than I ever do in mid-winter!