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Some Writerly Advice for the New Year

December 28, 2022 by Alina K. Field in category Quarter Days by Alina K. Field tagged as New Year's Resolutions, writing

Have you made your New Year’s resolutions?

Christmas and Hanukkah have passed, and I hope your celebrations were happy. Now is the usual time to start thinking about resolutions for the New Year.

I haven’t made any, and don’t intend to. Last year I decided my only resolution would be to take baby steps into the future. I think that’s probably one of the few resolutions I’ve ever kept!

What I need, I suppose, is motivation!!! With that in mind, here are some words of wisdom from famous authors of the past:

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
“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
“It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James

When you’re as old as I am, it’s always nice to hear that it’s never too late. But actually, I found this bit of advice more in tune with the author and the upcoming holiday:

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald