New Year thoughts borrowed from others.
I will let people far wiser than myself contemplate the significance of a new year. The first quote by Neil Gaiman is my favourite so it is at the top of my list.
Neil Gaiman. – English writer.
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.”
Edith Lovejoy Pierce. -English poet and pacifist.
“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.”
Ellen Goodman. -American journalist and columnist.
“We spend January 1st 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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson - American writer.
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
Thank you to all of you who add colour to my life, whether you are in the virtual world or we have met in person. There are so many of you that I would surely forget someone if I named all of you! All the best in 2025.
Louise - December 31, 2024.
Happy New Year from Germany!!! Dear Louise, I hope the year will bring for you and your family best health, peace in the world, many ideas for your creative working, luck and a lot of other good things you love. I like quotations too. During the last year many people did send us valuable and helpful words. In younger years I didn’t believe that these words can help in times of mournig and grief. But they can!!!! Warm hugs from Manfred and me.
Thank you Birgit. Yes, words can help with healing…so can art as you probably know. Thank you for your friendship over the years Birgit. I look forward to seeing more of your beautiful art in 2025. Wishing you and Manfred much happiness in this new year.
Happy New Year, Louise
Thanks Graham…here’s to another year of creativity and enjoying your beautiful paintings of the English countryside! All the best!
What a great post to start off 2025. 🤗
Thanks Sally. I collect quotations. Right now, I am reading Roald Dahl who wrote children’s stories like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I have saved several quotations from his children’s stories that might be applied to our lives.
However, I am reading his short stories for adults. On the book jacket, the Los Angeles Times says – “ Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildness and wryness of his own. One of his trademarks is writing beautifully about the ugly, even the horrible.” His style reminds me a bit of Shirley Jackson, another author with similar plot twists. Much happiness in 2025 to both of you.