Quotes for a New Year...

Quotes for a New Year

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going

to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity

and its first chapter is New Year's Day."

- Edith Lovejoy Pierce

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room,

drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe

this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms

of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential."

- Ellen Goodman

"What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal

on what you bring to the New Year."

- Vern McLellan

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:

To rise above the little things."

- John Burroughs

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on,

with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

- Hal Borland

"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go,

for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go."

- Brooks Atkinson

"You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about

yesterday all the time."

- Charles F. Kettering

"Resolve to make at least one person happy every day,

and then in ten years you may have made three thousand,

six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small

town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment."

- Sydney Smith

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A happy New Year! Grant that I

May bring no tear to any eye,

When this New Year in time shall end,

Let it be said I've played the friend,

Have lived and loved and labored here,

And made of it a happy year."

- Edgar A. Guest

Happy New Year, one and all!!! 
Sending out love and joy... Val =)

Quotes for a New Year...

Quotes for a New Year


"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
- Charles Lamb

"Every man should be born again on the first day of January.
Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if
necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the
first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face
to the front, and take no interest in the things that
were and are past."
- Henry Ward Beecher

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put
words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first
chapter is New Year's Day."
- Edith Lovejoy Pierce
"It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets."
- William Thomas
"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
- Oprah Winfrey
"Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer."
- Sir Walter Scott
"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on,
with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."
- Hal Borland
"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year.
It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet,
a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made
New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts
afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective."
- G. K. Chesterton
"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room,
drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.
Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through
the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws,
but for potential."
- Ellen Goodman
"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year find you a better man."
- Benjamin Franklin
Auld Lang Syne
- by Robert Burns

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne."


Happy New Year, everyone!!!! Wishing the best for all in 2010!!
Sending love and joy to all my friends, family and readers... Love, Val xox