“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”A Christmas Carol, Stave Four · View source
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New Year quotations can frame reflection without promising instant reinvention. This collection is designed around change, deliberate action, hope and learning from the year completed.
How to use this collection: Choose a line that supports a realistic intention, then name the specific action you want to carry forward.
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“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”A Christmas Carol, Stave Four · View source
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”A Christmas Carol, Stave Three · View source
“Lord, we know what we are but know not what we may be.”Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5 · View source
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”Henry V, Act 2, Scene 4 · View source
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.”Gitanjali, poem 35 · View source
“Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”Gitanjali, poem 37 · View source
“So stay where you are, and all things shall come to you in time.”Songs of Kabir, poem XL (I.65), translated by Rabindranath Tagore · View source
“The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish.”Gitanjali, poem 19 · View source
“Rise, brothers, rise, the wakening skies pray to the morning light.”The Golden Threshold — Coromandel Fishers · View source
“Thy Future calls thee with a manifold sound to crescent honours, splendours, victories vast.”The Golden Threshold — To India · View source
“It is not night; it is God’s dawn.”Sandhya: Songs of Twilight — Symbolism · View source
“The far away called her—a pilgrim on the hope-lit bark of youth.”Sandhya: Songs of Twilight — poem 5 · View source
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