Towards the end of the year, we might ponder what we have done before, and what plans or our expectations for the coming year. Perhaps no regrets because we are single or multiple failures that have occurred in our lives. There seems to be an unsolved problem, as if without a solution. However, if the sun always rises in the east, although not always right on the eastern horizon, the morning sun is always punctual in every season. Time probably will always pass, and often we do not care.

There are among us who may be hopeless, afraid to start something new, do not dare to change. Yes, almost everyone has experienced difficulties and challenges in life. And, every end of the year, ahead of the New Year's Eve we always have a moment to once again ponder about life, not only to regret the past, and we always have hope for a better future.

 

                                  Capturing a new hope at the summit of Mount Batur, Bali. Image: ubudraftingadventure.com

If the above narrative that does not inspire you or me, then I want to share many wonderful sayings or quotes that can wake you from solitude and ready for future action to build a more beautiful, more successful. 

If you have a dream that has not been fully realized, with all the courage we have, coupled with all the hopes of remaining in our hearts, then we can make a small hope become a remarkable achievement in the coming year. I know, you will rise up to pursue our dreams and embrace happiness. I believe, you also believe that the expectations will turn into a reality, even far exceed your expectations.

 

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The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. Melody Beattie

“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” Brad Paisley

“Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” – John R. Dallas Jr.

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”  Lao Tzu

 “Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come."  Melody Beattie

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” Oprah Winfrey

 

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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

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

As the New Year dawns,

I hope it is filled with the

promises of a brighter tomorrow.

Happy New Year! (Happy New Year Quotes 2016, happynewyearwishes.org)

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Gilbert K. Chesterton

And I love this quotes.

“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”  Criss Jami, Killosophy

Are you ready?

Do you agree that an old man is wiser than younger people? You definitely do not agree. There are few events in life and major events in the world, young people can do extraordinary things. Does this happen because they are wise?

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.  Author Unknown 

There are many wise words that suddenly just came out of someone, or we hear from the speeches of leaders, or because we get it from a book that tells the story of a simple life. There is also wisdom that is in the middle of communities. Wisdom it was able to respond to the challenges of time.

Seeking wisdom in life is like looking for the brightest star in the night sky

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.  Henry David Thoreau

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. - Henry James

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  Tom Wilson

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.  - Anne Sullivan

Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. Audrey Hepburn

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.  Michel de Montaigne

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. Herb Caen

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice. - Mohandas K. Gandhi

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.  Elbert Hubbard

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Barbara De Angelis

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost

Wisdom begins at the end.  Daniel Webster

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. Charles R. Swindoll

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Francis Bacon

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. George Santayana

People forget what you say, they forget what you did, but they never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou

“Be happy. It's one way of being wise.”  Sidonie Gabrielle

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.  Doug Larson

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. Baltasar Gracian

Cleverness is not wisdom.  Euripides

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.  Author Unknown

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. John C. Maxwell

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”  John Lennon

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

So, to receive or seek answers about life does not always have to come from the great people. Look around us, in our hearts and in the eyes of our children who are still naive, perhaps you will find meaning in life that we've been looking for.

Remember this:

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” Aristotle