1. Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland
2. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey
3. Ring out the old, ring in the new,
   Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
   The year is going, let him go;
   Ring out the false, ring in the true.
   ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
4. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~Mark Twain
5. People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown
6. Glory to God in highest heaven,
   Who unto man His Son hath given;
   While angels sing with tender mirth,
   A glad new year to all the earth.
   ~Martin Luther
7. We meet today
   To thank Thee for the era done,
   And Thee for the opening one.
   ~John Greenleaf Whittier
8. One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs
9. A happy New Year! Grant that I
   May bring no tear to any eye
   When this New Year in time shall end
   Let it be said I’ve played the friend,
   Have lived and loved and labored here,
   And made of it a happy year.
   ~Edgar Guest
10. We spend January 1 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. ~Ellen Goodman
11. May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. ~Joey Adams
12. I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s. ~Henry Moore
13. Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

This year I am trying something different. Leonard Sweet tweeted the idea, I am just borrowing it. 

“Less resolutions and more resolve”

 More resolve to seek His kingdom first…

More resolve to listen to only His voice…

More resolve to give my all to God…

More resolve to be kinder to myself…

What about you? What best describes your approach to the new year?

Happy 2009!!