Some thoughts on the New Year

As I begin each New Year, I like to read quotes that offer advice, inspiration and encouragement.

I’d thought I’d share some as we move into 2015. (Where does the time go?)

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

- Helen Keller

Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

- Brad Paisley

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

- Bill Vaughan

Let our New Year's resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

- Goran Persson

I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.

- Robert Paul

What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.

- Vern McLellan