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Way back in fourth grade, I tried to calculate my odds of living long enough to see the year 2000. I'd have to be something like 40 years old -- ancient! As if ANYONE could live that long.
Now we're about to welcome the year 2019, and I'll be something like 60 years -- which seems pretty young.
One of those concepts must be twisted thinking, but I'm not sure which one.
While I contemplate that, here is some collected wisdom from The Great Philosophers for you to ponder as we hang a new calendar on the wall.
• "Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to." -- Bill Vaughan
• "An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." -- Bill Vaughn
• "I can't believe it's been a year since I didn't become a better person." -- Anonymous
• "I think I made too many New Year's resolutions this year. It took me almost a full day to break them all." -- Anonymous
• "My New Year's resolution list usually starts with the desire to lose between 10 and 3,000 pounds." -- Nia Vardalos
• "A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now." -- Phil "Dr. Phil" McGraw
• "Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since." -- Dave Beard
• "A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other." -- Anonymous
• "My New Year's resolution is to stop hanging out with people who ask me about my New Year's resolutions." -- Anonymous
• "May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions!" -- Joey Adams
• "Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one." -- Brad Paisley
• "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." -- Seneca
• "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." -- Benjamin Franklin
• "What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year." -- Vern McLellan
• "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." -- C.S. Lewis
• "Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever." -- Neil Gaiman
• "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." -- Maya Angelou
• "You will never win if you never begin." -- Helen Rowland
• "What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet." -- Anne Frank
• "It always seems impossible until it's done." -- Nelson Mandela
• "In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps." -- Proverbs 16:9
• "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God." -- Philippians 4:6
• "Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." -- Helen Keller
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