From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
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From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
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.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.
Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.
A very Merry Christmas _x000D_ _x000D_ And a happy New Year _x000D_ _x000D_ Let's hope it's a good one _x000D_ _x000D_ Without any fear.
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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