From the Quote of the Week Files; January 4, 2009

2010! A New Chance to Get it Right! Welcome fresh hope and inspiration into your life with a slew of New Year's quotes! Enjoy!
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"And now let us welcome the New Year full of things that have never been."

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Recycled New Years Quotes from years past...

New Year's Quote; 2009

"What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year."

Vern McLellan

"In whatever sense this year is a New Year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand and with joy and gratitude."

Howard Thurman
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New Year's Quote; 2008

January First

The year's doors open
like those of language,
toward the unknown.
Last night you told me:
tomorrow
we shall have to think up signs,
sketch a landscape,
fabricate a plan
on the double page
of day and paper.
Tomorrow, we shall have to invent,
once more,
the reality of this world.

Elizabeth Bishop
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New Year's; 2007
Choices you can make for the New Year

Choose to love—rather than hate.
Choose to smile—rather than frown.
Choose to build—rather than destroy.
Choose to persevere—rather than quit.
Choose to praise—rather than gossip.
Choose to heal—rather than wound.
Choose to give—rather than take.
Choose to act—rather than delay.
Choose to forgive—rather than curse.
Choose to pray—rather than despair.

Author Unknown
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At the end of each year, I ask myself two questions:
1) What do I want to create in this New Year?
And, perhaps even more importantly,
2) What do I want to let go of?

Patricia Digh
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New Year's Quote; 2006

Five questions that will help you reflect the year past and where we find ourselves at the beginning of 2006 (2010)!

What did I learn?
What did I accomplish?
What was your greatest contribution?
How am I different this year than last?
For what am I particularly grateful?
What do remember best about the old year?
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New Year's Quote; 2005

"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."

Henry Ward Beecher
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New Year's Quote; 2004

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and Third by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius
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New Year's Quote; 2003

How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?

Dr. Seuss
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New Year's Quote; 2002

Recipe for a Happy New Year; Serves One, with plenty for everybody!

Ingredients:12 Months; faith; patience; courage; work; hope; faith; generosity; kindness fun ; play; humor; love; unselfishness; cheerfulness; meditation; resolution

Take twelve whole months and see that they are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate. Cleanse them completely from every clinging spite. Pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness. Make them just as fresh and clean as possible.

Cut these months into twenty eight, thirty or thirty-one different parts but don’t make the whole batch at once (so many persons spoil the entire lot this way). Prepare one day at a time.

Into each day put one part faith, one part patience, one part courage, and one part work.

Add to each day one part hope, faithfulness, generosity, and one good deed.

Put in about one heaping tablespoon of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor.

Pour all of this into a kettle of love. Cook thoroughly over radiant joy, garnish with a smile, and serve with quietness, unselfishness, and cheerfulness.

Author Unknown
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New Year's Quote; 2001

"If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn't bring you tears, either of joy or sadness, consider the year wasted."

John Cage, Ally McBeal

“No one can go back and make a brand new start, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end!"

Author Unknown
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New Year's Quote; 2000

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

Plato
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Wishing you a most beautiful year, wherever it may find you!