It’s easy to forget what an amazing gift life really is. Our lives are nothing but a cosmic blink. Even our seemingly all-encompassing world is just a tiny blue dot, which itself is just one galaxy among billions more. Yet, for one brief moment, we get to experience the wonders of existence, of consciousness. The year 2015 has been a long year. It might have affected us in a good way or a bad way. Whether or not this was a good year for you, remember that you have another year to make your mark, another year to make it right, and another year to live like crazy. Keep on reading for some inspiring quotes to end the year strong and begin the new year with a fresh perspective.
The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. Carl Bard.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something. Neil Gaiman.
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” Benjamin Disraeli.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell.
What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year. Vern McLellan.
Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. Jack Canfield.
I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs. William Arthur Ward.
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential. Ellen Goodman.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers.
If not us, who? If not now, when? John F. Kennedy.
