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Quotes
for
the Journey:
The New Year
A new year can
begin only
because the old year ends.
Madeleine L'Engle
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The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own
dead.
The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail
the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
-Edward Payson Powell
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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
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Every new year people make resolutions to change aspects of themselves
they believe are negative. A majority of people revert back to how
they
were before and feel like failures. This year I challenge you
to a new
resolution. I challenge you to just be yourself.
-Aisha Elderwyn |
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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
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| Every person 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
person gird him or herself once more, with face to the
front, and take
no interest in the things that were and are past.
-Henry Ward Beecher |
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| 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 |
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| New Year's
Eve is like every
other night; there is no pause
in the march of the
universe,
no breathless moment of
silence among
created things
that the passage
of another
twelve months may be noted;
and
yet no person has quite
the same
thoughts this evening
as those that come with the
coming of darkness on other nights.
-Hamilton Wright Mabie |
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The conventional Happy New Year approach is to
think of the New Year
as something that happens outside of our selves.
It is a good luck wish
that the New Year, in some magical way, will
bring us our heart’s desire.
We look to the New Year to make us happy.
When we expect happiness to come
to us from the outside, we are
usually disappointed. Happiness
is not guaranteed
by sunny weather, a raise in pay, a new car, a beautiful
home or anything else
of a material nature.
External things are often possessed by very unhappy people.
Happiness does not come out of a New Year, it comes out of men and
women.
Life does not change when we hang a new calendar on the wall
or when the
clock strikes midnight and a New Year begins.
The only way life will
change for us is when we change ourselves.
-Wilferd A. Peterson |
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depends on us. . . Another year lies before us like an
unwritten page,
an unspent coin, an unwalked road. How the pages will read,
what treasures will be gained in exchange for time,
or what we find along
the way, will largely depend on us.
-Esther Baldwin York |
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Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer,
With never a thought of sorrow;
The old goes out, but the glad young year
Comes merrily in tomorrow.
Emily Miller
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And I said to the man who
stood at the gate of the year:
"Give me a light
that I may
tread safely into the
unknown." And he replied:
"Go out into the
darkness
and put your hand into
the hand of God. That
shall be to you better
than light, and safer
than a known way."
-Minnie Louise Haskins |
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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.
Alfred Tennyson
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| Today, dear friends, we stand upon the verge of
the unknown. There lies
before us the new year and we are going forth to possess it.
Who can tell what we shall find?
What new experiences, what changes shall come, what new needs shall
arise?. . . . The land is a land of hills and valleys.
It is not all smooth nor all downhill.
If life were all one dead level, the dull sameness would oppress
us; we want the hills and valleys. . .
We cannot tell what loss and sorrow and trial are doing.
Trust only. The Father
comes near to take our hand and lead us on our way today.
It shall be a good, blessed new year!
-Lettie B. Cowman |
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