Happy New Year!!!

 

 

Happy 2015!!!

As you enjoy your black-eyed peas and cabbage, here's some food for thought:

 

 

Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.

~Quoted in Benjamin Franklin's 1755 Poor Richard's Almanac, December 

 

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

 

Every man should be born again on the first 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 interest in the things that are and are to be, and not in the things that were and are past.

~Henry Ward Beecher, "A Completed Year," 1882 December 31st

 

 

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"

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
 

 

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

~Oprah Winfrey
 

 

Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
~Martin Luther

Love ya'll, Shelli