“Another fresh new year is here … another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear. To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me, to live each day with zest. To daily grow and try to be my highest and my best!”—William Arthur Ward
“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
“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
“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.”—Edgar Guest
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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