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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).

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." Henry Miller

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! (Charles Dickens)

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost)

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. (Heraclitus)

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. (Helen Keller)

“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.” (Alice M.Swaim)

One kind word can warm three winter months. (Japanese proverb)

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake... ( Francis Bacon snr)

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen —Oren Lyons

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~Julien Green

"...We'll welcome December with tireless hope." (from 'Snow', Sleeping At Last).

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- (Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886)

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. William Blake