From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a renewed optimism that comes with the New Year and a commitment to positive thinking.
Leonard Bernstein reflects on the transformative power of the New Year as a time when people's attitudes shift towards positivity and hope. The quote emphasizes the importance of letting go of negativity and cultivating a mindset focused on gratitude and resolve, encouraging individuals to actively choose optimism and stop dwelling on complaints.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a New Year's celebration to inspire others.
Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.
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In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
After the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the shutdown of much of New York City by Sandy in 2012, and now the devastation wrought on Texas by Harvey, the U.S. can and should do better.
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.
We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.
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