A portion of life, every moment gets torn out of me hurting, and flees away.
New Year Quotes
Edmund Burke, in 1791, gave the most useful advice for the occasion: you can never plan the future by the past. The page is built from the pages on change, hope, the future and time, with Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Horace and Byron supplying most of the entries. It has no New Year collection behind it.
If you want something about resolutions, the Change page has better material. The famous line about a small group of citizens changing the world, credited to Margaret Mead, is marked disputed. Nobody has found where it comes from.
Most quoted on new year:
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.