Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.
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Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.
From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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.
I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.
My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
Every man 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 man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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.
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