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Inspiration for the New Year

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

“Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.” – Steven Spielberg

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Ghandi

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein

“New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach

“From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.” – Leonard Bernstein

“We spend Jan. 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

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin