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20 Quotes To End 2015 Strong

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meghan Hui

Nov 30, 2015

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As we head into the final month of 2015, it's time to start tying up loose ends and preparing for the awesomeness that will be 2016. Are you ready?

1. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford

2. “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3. “For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot

4. “Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” — Pamela Vaull Starr

5.“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

6. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin

8. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

9. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

10. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey

11. “Celebrate what you want to see more of.” — Tom Peters

12. “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

Funny:

13. “I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.” ― Robert Clark

14. “Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.” — Dave Beard

15. “Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.” — Bill Vaughn

New Year's Resolutions:

16. "New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” — James Agate

17. "What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year." — Vern McLellan

18. “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

19. “Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” — Jonathan Edwards

BONUS (resolutions are hard, okay?):

20. “Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” —Cavett Robert

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New Year's Resolutions:

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There are plenty of obstacles that come when taking care of kids, but it's a very rewarding experience.

1. You get excited when the parents purchase season passes to the pool.

2. You've become friends with the stay-at-home moms in town.

3. You get a chance to eat "kid foods" again.

4. You've traded in your cute purse for a large tote bag.

5. You have at least one car seat in your backseat.

6. Their nap time is your happy time.

7. Lunch time can be a disaster.

8. You have to play the same board games repeatedly.

9. You catch yourself using the same lines your parents once told you.

10. Your "mom-mode" kicks in at times.

11. Your heart melts a little when they do something cute.

You'll never find any souvenirs with your name on it

1. You know you are up next when the teacher pauses while taking attendance

2. When “I’m going to do my very best to make sure I know all your names” is said, it may or may be an empty promise

3. “Wow! That sounds so cool! Where is your family from?”

4. You dread when people ask you to repeat your name over and over because it “sounds so cool when you say it”

5. There’s a 50/50 chance that your name will come back either correct or incorrect at Starbucks

6. People try to find shorter, easier nicknames for you instead of calling you by your actual name

7. When someone famous or fictional character shares your name, you get so happy

8. “What’s your name?” “It’s [name]” “I’m sorry, what was it again?”

9. You’ve pretty much seen every misspelling and heard every mispronunciation of your name throughout your life

10. When you find another person with an “ethnic” sounding name, you both get excited

11. Despite the struggles, your name is pretty unique… just like you

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4. “You look too light/dark to be Puerto Rican.”

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6. “Geez, you are obsessed with your flag. We get it, you’re Puerto Rican.”

7. “Why are you so loud?”

8. “So does your family know English?”

9. “Oh my god, Puerto Ricans are so spicy.”

10. “So did you eat a lot of tacos?”

11. “Are you Mexican?”

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