New Year’s Resolutions

ByDr. Dan

Have you made your New Year’s Resolution yet; or perhaps already broken the one you made last week?  I gave up making resolutions several years ago, but I do find them interesting.  C.S. Lewis once said, “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”  Bestselling American author, Melody Beattie, who wrote numerous self-help books, wrote, “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.”  So rather than set resolutions, I set goals and dream dreams. Oh, and at my age, 9pm is the new midnight.  The transition came when I began to celebrate when the ball fell in New York and slowly moved up in time-zones as my bedtime moved to an earlier hour.  So, here are a few quotes about the new year:

  • “You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time.” – Charlie Brown of Peanuts fame.
  • “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” —Thomas Jefferson
  • “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.”
  • “What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.”-Anne Frank.
  • “Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
  • “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old” (Isaiah 43:18).
  • “I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do,forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal. . .  (Philippians 3:13-14).
  • “O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come” – Isaac Watts.