{"quotes":[{"text":"And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["2016","becoming","beginning","end-of-the-year","experience","growing","life","love","new-year","new-years","self","starting-over","understand","understanding","worth","you"],"id":2157,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["determination","direction","future","goals","hand","life","map","new-years","new-years-day","pen","road","write","written"],"id":14702,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it's important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee. Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["being-busy","busy","goals","holiday","life","magic","midnight","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","slowing-down","taking-stock","the-past","the-present","time","tomorrow","tradition","traditions","yesterday"],"id":21103,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"If we’ve somehow become convinced that the script we followed ‘yesterday’ can’t be edited, it will be incredibly difficult to tell the difference between ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["difficult","future","new-years","new-years-day","past","script","tomorrow","yesterday"],"id":23449,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"MURRY: It's not that, it's just… I don't really get it. I usually find myself staring at the midnight deadline filled with regrets both for opportunities and loved ones missed. It's another day closer to the end. The last thing I feel like doing is counting down to some wild celebration. It just seems so sad to say goodbye to a year and know that it’s gone forever and you can’t go back to it. Not to relive, not to correct.NOEL: I've never thought about it that way.MURRY: There's something so final about it. It's the period at the end of the sentence.NOEL: The New Year's resolution.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["goals","holiday","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","tradition","traditions"],"id":37947,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"MURRY: Why do we even celebrate the New Year? It's just this arbitrary quirk of how we measure time in years, right? Midnight tonight is the very same transition from day to day that we do every 24 hours. But this thing in my hands, it feels real in a way the numbered calendar box never does. Why? What makes midnight tonight any different?","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["goals","holiday","midnight","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","tradition","traditions"],"id":53574,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"This I would like to be- braver and bolder, Just a bit wiser because I am older, Just a bit kinder to those I may meet, Just a bit manlier taking defeat; This for the New Year my wish and my plea- Lord, make a regular man out of me. This I would like to be- just a bit finer, More of a smiler and less of a whiner, Just a bit quicker to stretch out my hand Helping another who's struggling to stand, This is my prayer for the New Year to be, Lord, make a regular man out of me. This I would like to be- just a bit fairer, Just a bit better, and just a bit squarer, Not quite so ready to censure and blame, Quicker to help every man in the game, Not quite so eager men's failings to see, Lord, make a regular man out of me. This I would like to be- just a bit truer, Less of the wisher and more of the doer, Broader and bigger, more willing to give, Living and helping my neighbor to live! This for the New Year my prayer and my plea- Lord, make a regular man out of me.","author":"Edgar A. Guest","tags":["hope","inspirational","new-years","prayer"],"id":60928,"author_id":"Edgar+A.+Guest"},{"text":"The only thing I have to wait for to change my life is my attitude.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["attitude","change","direction","focus","goals","life","new-years","new-years-day"],"id":65865,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["beginning","beginnings","beginnings-and-endings","dead-end","dead-ends","death","end","endings","god-ending","new-year","new-years"],"id":71427,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["future","holiday","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","past","regrets"],"id":102043,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}