Some Good Old Words for A Brand New Year

Posted by Meg Nola Jan 2, 2009

Here comes January with its fresh white calendar pages, new resolves, new hopes, and a peck of wisdom to ponder:

• You must pray that the way will be long, full of adventures and experiences. --Constantine Peter Cavafy
• Joy is not in things; it is in us. -- Richard Wagner
• The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. -- Zeno (335 BC – 264 BC)
• Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -- Edith Wharton
• A goal without a plan is just a wish. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. -- William James
• In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. -- Robert Heinlein
• Drive thy business or it will drive thee. -- Benjamin Franklin
• Don't open a shop unless you like to smile. -- Chinese Proverb
• The future will be better tomorrow. -- Dan Quayle