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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Sep 29, 2025
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
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.
Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.
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.
I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.
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!
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.
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
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.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.
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.
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
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