Quotes

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“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

- Albert Einstein

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“It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.”

- James Gordon, M.D.

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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

- Oprah Winfrey

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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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For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

- T.S. Eliot

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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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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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A new year is unfolding--like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within.

- Unknown

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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

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New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

- Mark Twain

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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

- John Burroughs

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Each age has deemed the new-born year

The fittest time for festal cheer

- Walter Scott

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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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This bright new year is given me

To live each day with zest

To daily grow and try to be

My highest and my best!

- William Arthur Ward

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“Those who try to hang on when God is trying to move on will always be miserable. ”

- Joyce Meyer

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“There must be more to life than having everything.”

- Maurice Sendak

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“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities. This is the warmup act. This is the get-ready stage. This is the dress rehearsal before the real act begins. ”

- Rick Warren

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Quotes on How to Be Strong

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“Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose only [upon] the Beloved who will never pass away.”

- C.S. Lewis

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“They were very good at the hospital with the education, the material they sent home with me, the meal plans, but then I had to execute it. I felt like I was a slave in the kitchen, the meal planning took so much time, there were so many changes. I tried so hard to make meals to please him.”

- Gretchen M.

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“Measure not God's love and favor by your own feelings. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest.”

- Richard Sibbes

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“To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakable perfect miracle.”

- Walt Whitman

- (from Reflections, by Ardath Rodale)

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“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what cant be done.”

- Henry Ford

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“We cannot but admit that not even the least thing takes place unless it is ordered by God. For who have ever been so concerned and curious as to find out how much hair he has on his head? There is no one. God, however, knows the number. Indeed, nothing is too small in us or in any other creature, not to be ordered by the all-knowing and all-powerful providence of God.”

- Huldryrch Zwingli