I RESOLVE TO . . .

New Year Possibilities -

"The Old Year has gone.  Let the dead past bury its own dead.  The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.  All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!"

Edward Payson Powell - From Quotegarden

New Year, What We Eat -

"People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas."

Author Unknown - From Quotegarden

One Resolution -

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:  To rise above the little things."

John Burroughs - From Quotegarden

Good New Year Resolutions -

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

  Oscar Wilde - From Quotegarden

New Year Potential -

"We spend January 1 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."

Ellen Goodman - From Quotegarden

No Resolutions For The New Year -

"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." 

Anaïs Nin - From Quotegarden

New Year's Eve -

"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time." 

Jean Paul Richter - From Quotegarden

New Year Improvements -

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." 

Benjamin Franklin  - From Quotegarden

New Year, Year's End -

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

Hal Borland - From Quotegarden

New Year's Day -

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday. "

Charles Lamb - From Quotegarden

Ring Out The Old, Ring In The New -

"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."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850 - From Quotegarden

New Year's Day, Annual Good Resolutions -

"New Year's Day:  Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Mark Twain - From Quotegarden

New Year's Eve Like Every Other Night -

"New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights."

Hamilton Wright Mabie - From Quotegarden

New Year's Eve -

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.  Middle age is when you're forced to. 

Bill Vaughn - From Quotegarden

I Resolve To . . . Do's -

Dare To Dream . . .

"Dare to dream, decide, define, develop a plan, and do it daily.  If you follow those five steps, in one year you would be amazed how much you can achieve with a cherished goal.  Think of the journey as one goal, one day at a time for one year.  Then go for it!"

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I Resolve To . . . Thoughts For The New Year -

One Wish . . .

"If you could make one wish, knowing it would be granted with no questions asked, what would it be?  Don't think too long or too hard.   Go with your first reaction.  You don't need a Fairy God Mother or a winning lottery ticket to achieve your heart's desire.  Passion deep within your heart and soul, hidden or unseen, is waiting for a spark.  Light that spark and fan the flame.  The power is within each one of us to grant our own wish."

Copyright 2005-2007 Kim M. Simpson/I Resolve To, Inc *  All Rights Reserved.

"If you could make one wish, knowing it would be granted with no questions asked, what would it be?  Don't think too long or too hard.   Go with your first reaction.  You don't need a Fairy God Mother or a winning lottery ticket to achieve your heart's desire.  Passion deep within your heart and soul, hidden or unseen, is waiting for a spark.  Light that spark and fan the flame.  The power is within each one of us to grant our own wish."

Copyright 2005-2007 Kim M. Simpson/I Resolve To, Inc *  All Rights Reserved.

"If you could make one wish, knowing it would be granted with no questions asked, what would it be?  Don't think too long or too hard.   Go with your first reaction.  You don't need a Fairy God Mother or a winning lottery ticket to achieve your heart's desire.  Passion deep within your heart and soul, hidden or unseen, is waiting for a spark.  Light that spark and fan the flame.  The power is within each one of us to grant our own wish."

Copyright 2005-2007 Kim M. Simpson/I Resolve To, Inc *  All Rights Reserved.

New Year Thoughts -

Life . . .

"It's all about setting priorities, doing the best you can, celebrating your wins, learning from your losses, and just 'getting up the next day to do it all over again.'"   

Copyright *  2005-2007 Kim M. Simpson/I Resolve To * All Rights Reserved

"It's all about setting priorities, doing the best you can, celebrating your wins, learning from your losses, and just 'getting up the next day to do it all over again.'"   

Copyright *  2005-2007 Kim M. Simpson/I Resolve To * All Rights Reserved

New Year Rhymes -

"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."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - American Poet & Writer (1850-1919) - From Thinkexist.com

A New Year -

"Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right."

Oprah Winfrey - American Television Personality, Actress & Producer - (Born 1954) - From Thinkexist.com

New Year's Day -

"We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

Edith Lovejoy Pierce - Poet (Born 1904) - From Thinkexist.com

New Year Resolutions -

"May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions."

Joey Adams - American Comedian, Actor (1911-1999) - From Thinkexist.com

My New Year Resolution -

"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."

Tucker Carlson - MSNBC Political Commentator - From Thinkexist.com

January The Second -

"I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you?  Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system.  Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover.  I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second." 

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

New Year -

"Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits."

Author Unknown

Yesterday -

"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."

           Mark Twain

New Year Optimism -

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."

Bill Vaughan

Auld Lang Syne

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
And here's a hand, my trusty friend
And gie's a hand o' thine
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne"

Holiday Behavior -

"The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk.  This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to." 

P.J. O'Rourke

New Habits -

"Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits." 

Author Unknown

White Vows -

"The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows."

George William Curtis - From The Quotegarden

New Year -

"The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year.  It is that we should have a new soul."

G.K. Chesterton

New Beginning -

"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

Time -

"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." 

Thomas Mann

January One -

"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 - From The Quotegarden