2012

To help you celebrate and reflect here is a collection of quotes to start the new year.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want. -Irish toast

Your Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you … but your Happy New Year depends on what you do for others. -Author unknown

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller

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

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. John Burroughs

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

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin

May the best of this year be the worst of next. Unknown

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment. Sydney Smith