It’s officially New Year’s Day, here are a few takes of what New Year’s is about by some famous individuals…

“A new year is unfolding – like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within.” (I’m not sure who)

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

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. Brooks Atkinson

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

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. Mark Twain [Don’t be caught in the cycle, keep your resolutions… it’s a matter of character]

Here’s my own take, and you can quote me on this. “The New Year is just that, a new year, we can always decide to be hopeful and strive for prosperity any time of the year, not just on January 1″ - Nicholas Kister