MISCELLANY
EndNotes
What does the New Year hold?
A Prayer for Child Care Workers
A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye;
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
— Edgar Guest
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“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.”
— G.K. Chesterton
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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
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A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
— Author Unknown
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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"
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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
— Thomas Mann
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Many people look forward to the new
year
for a new start on old habits.
— Author Unknown
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