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MESSAGES FOR THE NEW YEAR

Author • Dec 31, 2022

Messages for the New Year

“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

“And now we welcome the New Year. Full of things that have never been.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”

- Rumi

“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 Piece

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

- C.S. Lewis

“We turn not older with years, but new every day.”

- Emily Dickinson

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."

- The Contemporary Elder Institute

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