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    Sanober Khan
    “I blink January’s lashes
    and gush down December’s cheeks”
    ― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
    tags: blink, cheeks, december, gush, january, passage-of-time, passing-of-time, poetry, poetry-quotes, tears, time
    35 likes

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    Aberjhani
    “First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.”
    ― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
    tags: achieving-success, change, destiny-and-attitude, endurance, faith, inspirational, inspiring-quotes, making-progress, nanowrimo, national-novel-writing-month, new-year-quotes, perseverance, personal-empowerment, positive-attitude, positive-motivation, progress, strength-of-character, success-self-improvement
    50 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
    45295 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
    31241 likes

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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
    33849 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “January, the Monday of months....”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: truth
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    John Steinbeck
    “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    tags: contrast, life, opposites, summer, winter
    1953 likes

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    Patricia Briggs
    “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood
    tags: change, mind, summer, winter
    549 likes

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    Alfred Tennyson
    “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 Tennyson, In Memoriam
    tags: in-memoriam, new-years, new-years-eve
    211 likes

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    Charles Dickens
    “So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!”
    ― Charles Dickens, The Chimes
    tags: charity, chimes, inspirational, new, wise, year
    34 likes

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    John Ashbery
    “The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …”
    ― John Ashbery
    tags: ashbery, cake, love, poetry, reality, year
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    Murtaza Ali
    “Happiness is a tale, unknown to man.”
    ― Murtaza Ali
    tags: destiny, fate, new-year-quotes, new-year-resolution, sad-quotes
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    Mae West
    “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
    ― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
    tags: chances, ex-boyfriends, lovers, men, new-beginnings, separation
    1284 likes

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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year
    4707 likes

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  • #15
    “Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
    ― Brad Paisley
    tags: new-year
    993 likes

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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
    tags: future, hope, new-year, new-year-s-resolutions, new-years, past, present, resolutions, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, unknown
    65 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, A Chesterton calendar
    tags: determination, effort, growth, new-year
    58 likes

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  • #18
    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
    tags: hope, light
    3045 likes

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    Leonora Carrington
    “We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
    ― Leonora Carrington
    tags: dawn, light, silence
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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  • #21
    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78301 likes

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  • #24
    “We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.”
    ― David Bottoms
    tags: boredom, breaking-free, breaking-the-rules, changes, life, new, new-beginnings
    164 likes

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  • #25
    Erica Bauermeister
    “I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.”
    ― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients
    tags: dessert, memories, memory-loss
    33 likes

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  • #26
    Jeff Vandermeer
    “We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.”
    ― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne
    64 likes



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