{"quotes":[{"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":"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":"Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["loneliness","new-years-eve"],"id":56609,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"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"},{"text":"Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.","author":"John R. Dallas Jr.","tags":["faith","faithful","faithfulness","hope","hopeful","hopes","leadership-characteristics","new-year","new-year-wish","new-years-eve","new-years-resolution","regret","regrets","resolutions"],"id":122771,"author_id":"John+R.+Dallas+Jr."},{"text":"The whole point to New Years is not just to have a new year. But that we should be new, better and different people. That is why we exercise to RE-NEW our bodies. That is why we write GOALS to get a Renewed sense of our potential. That is why we make RE-SOLUTIONS because we resolve that there are solutions inside of us that we have not tapped into. So don't waste each New Years season. Maximize it! Start fresh using a new perspective for it will enable you to tap into a new season with greater capacity.","author":"Stella Payton","tags":["capacity","do-over","exercise","goals","maximize","new-years-eve","potential","renewed","resolution"],"id":168174,"author_id":"Stella+Payton"},{"text":"The Christian living is a spiritual welfare. As the year draws to an end, seek the face of the Lord for guidance in the coming year.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian-living","christianity","faith","god-s-grace","god-s-plan","gods-sovereignty","guidance","new-year","new-year-s-resolutions","new-year-wish-wish","new-years-eve","prayer","spiritual","spiritual-warfare","sprituality","welfare","wisdom"],"id":172149,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["goals","holiday","inspirational","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","tradition","traditions","year"],"id":200410,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"I resolve to write a new chapter of my life every new day in the New Year.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["ambitions","christian-life","christmas","daring-life","determination","faith","hope","journal","life","life-philosophy","new-year","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years-eve","notekeeping","passionate-life","philosophy","prayer","resolutions","self-confidence","uplifting","write","writing-life"],"id":247089,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}