I am writing this in the last hours of the the last day in a difficult year. Tonight we will all celebrate the birth of the new year, reflect on the past and come to resolutions for the new year to come. The usual resolutions frequently concern our appearance and health, reforming unproductive habits or caring for others.
For a different take, I decided to see what some others thought about New Year's Eve Resolutions. Enjoy.
"The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings." – Charles Dickens
"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
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits." - Andre Gide
"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
"We meet today, To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one." - John Greenleaf Whittier
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." - Oscar Wilde
Of these I think we will close out the year with Robert Burns:
"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
." Happy New Year All
