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.
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
We spend January 1st 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.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world.
Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another
Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word
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.
A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding…and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
All day I have been trying to find words for what this experience is like ... But it is no use. I cannot find any words that will not sound either inflated or sentimental or overstrained.
Hope. It is the little seed that pushes through the hardest of walls to embrace the warmth of the sun.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man
