Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
~ Danny Kaye
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
~ Anne Frank
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
~ Oprah Winfrey
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful. And don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
~ Neil Gaiman
Ah, New Year’s Eve. The evening of little miracles. Take away the dazzling fireworks, the celebrations, the drinking and the countdowns and what you are left with is hope. Small human hope. The hope of better days, of fresh starts, and perhaps, if you are very lucky, a kiss.
~ Beau Taplin
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
~ Arnold Bennett
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language,
And next year’s words await another voice.
What we call the beginning is often the end,
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~ T.S. Eliot
If you can’t fly, then run.
If you can’t run, then walk.
If you can’t walk, then crawl.
But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your time as a caterpillar has expired. Your wings are ready.
~ Anon
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. And if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
~ Harriet Tubman
You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.
~ James R. Sherman
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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 person.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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
Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
~ Dr. Seuss
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it,
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Faust”
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one!
~ Brad Paisley
May your troubles be less, and your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door.
~ Irish Blessing
In the New Year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
~ Nido Qubein
I have the opportunity once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.
~ William Arthur Ward