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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Oct 1, 2025
Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.
The journey is the reward
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage.
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.
Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living in the future, rather than a media controlled slave state where an iPhone is worth substantially more than a human life. Happy new year.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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.
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.
I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
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.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!
Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.
Happy new year everbody! And remember: be kind to eachother.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.
Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.