The New Year is a reusable blank slate.
-Vera Nazarian
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
-George William Curtis
New Year = A New Life!
Decide today who you will become,
what you will give, how you will live.
-Tony Robbins
I make no resolutions for the New Year.
The habit of making plans,
of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life,
is too much a daily event for me.
-Anais Nin
The first day of April is the day we remember
what we are the other 364 days of the year.
-Mark Twain
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
-W. J. Cameron
I make no resolutions for the New Year.
The habit of making plans,
of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life,
is too much a daily event for me.
-Anais Nin
The first day of April is the day we remember
what we are the other 364 days of the year.
-Mark Twain
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
-W. J. Cameron
So the shortest day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive,
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us — Listen!!
All the long echoes sing the same delight,
This shortest day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!
-Susan Cooper
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive,
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us — Listen!!
All the long echoes sing the same delight,
This shortest day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!
-Susan Cooper
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
-Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas is not a time or a season, but a state of mind.
To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy,
is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
-Calvin Coolidge
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
-Charles M. Schulz
Christmas has a way of bringing out the best in everyone.
-Bing Crosby
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern,
is very simple: loving others.
Come to think of it,
why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
-Bob Hope
I will honor Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year.
-Charles Dickens
The message of Christmas is that the visible material world
is bound to the invisible spiritual world.
-Author Unknown
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
-Eva Logue
The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart,
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
-Eva Logue
The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart,
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This year,
yes, even this year,
has drawn to a close.
-Buson
Another year gone -
hat in my hand,
sandals on my feet.
-Basho
Another year gone -
hat in my hand,
sandals on my feet.
-Basho
