Each year, I choose a quote-of-the-week to write in my weekly planner.
Here is my Planner Quote Collection for 2022:

jan

New year – a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.

– Alex Morritt

 

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

– Dan Millman

 

So much of any year is flammable,

lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,

so little is a stone.

Where there was something and suddenly isn’t
an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves space.

I begin again with the smallest of numbers.

– Naomi Shihab Nye (from “Burning the Old Year”)

 

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
– Kakuzo Okakaura

feb

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
– William Stafford

 

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising and gave to it neither power nor time.

– Mary Oliver

 

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.
–Dalai Lama

 

Don’t fight darkness – bring the light, and the darkness will disappear.

– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

mar

I learned silence from the talkative and tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind.
– Kahlil Gibran

 

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: When it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
– Charles Dickens

 

The earth has music for those who will listen.
– Reginald Holmes

 

Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.
– Mary Oliver

 

A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.
– Amit Kalantri

apr

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the inner life.
– Helen Keller

 

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
– Margaret Atwood

 

If you pay attention, the events of an ordinary day can come together as a found poem.
– Parker Palmer

 

I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
– Alice Sebold

may

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. Begin it now.
– Steven Pressfield

 

Gardens are not made by singing, “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.
– Rudyard Kipling

 

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.
– Alfred Austin

 

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
– Allan Armitage

jun

Untangle your joy from what’s heavy and let it buoy you into beauty.
– Brandi Kincaid

 

Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

 

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
– Wallace Stevens

jul

Birds have always had the ability to bring me out of a dark space and provide relief in bad times.
– Jason Ward

 

Transformation isn’t about adding more work to your life, it’s about shifting your perspective so life becomes more fun, magical, and joyful.
– Sheri Salata

 

Every time your mind shifts, your world shifts.
– Byron Katie

 

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
– Kahlil Gibran

 

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something in a totally new light.
– Dan Brown

aug

I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.
– Susan Branch

 

I refuse to believe in scarcity or to hoard opportunity.
– Roxane Gay

 

Each new chapter of our lives requests an old part of us to fall and a new part of us to rise.
– Jenna Galbut

 

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
– Joseph Campbell

sep

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.
– Charles Bukowski

 

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
– William Shakespeare

 

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.
– Rebecca Solnit

 

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall.
– Ann Patchett

 

The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things.
– Oliver Burkeman

oct

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am
– Sylvia Plath

 

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
– May Sarton

 

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.
– Jim Bishop

 

There are no days as delightful as those of a fine October.
– Alexander Smith

nov

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.
– Donald Miller

 

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
– A.A. Milne

 

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
– G.K. Chesterton

 

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
– Thornton Wilder

dec

What separates us from entitlement is gratitude.
– Brené Brown

 

It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.
– Sarah Kay

 

It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.
– Elizabeth Camden

 

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
– Norman Vincent Peale

That’s the thing about December: it goes by in a flash. If you just close your eyes, it’s gone. And it’s just like you were never there.
– Donal Ryan