Happy New Year!

I am a little under-the-weather this New Year's Eve and so rather than writing a master piece of inspiration for the coming new year or posting delicious recipes for all the great parties, I thought I'd post some quotes from people who can say it better than I can even when I'm not sick.

I hope in 2011 your lives are filled with peace, love, joy, and prosperity.  Be safe and Happy New Year!


--Lisa

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Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. 
Benjamin Franklin




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




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

You have done what you could — some blunders and absurdities have crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And this one is not inspirational, but the man makes me laugh while telling it like it is:


New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
Mark Twain