Clean up the house. Get those pots and pans rattling. Pull out those tunes and balloons and throw on something nice. 2023 has come in like Wiley Coyote and gone out like the Roadrunner. Everyone I spoke with this year agreed on one thing or should I say begged the question—“Where did this year go?” or “I can’t believe how fast this year passed us by!” Someone once said, “The older you get the faster time passes” and if there is any truth to this we need not waste any more time and get right to what these famous writers had to say about the New Year…

“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning, and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ” — Anaïs Nin

“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” — G.K Chesterton

“New Year’s Eve always terrifies me. Life knows nothing of years. Now the horns have stopped and the firecrackers and the thunder… it’s all over in five minutes… all I hear is the rain on the palm leaves, and I think, I will never understand men, but I have lived it through.” — Charles Bukowski, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” — ― Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman’s Journal

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot, ‘Four Quartets‘

A new year … a fresh, clean start! It’s like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! A day full of possibilities! It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy … let’s go exploring!” — Bill Watterson, It’s a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” — Alfred Tennyson

Now, to all you dedicated writers, we hope you read something that will give you the inspiration to keep pecking those darn keys in 2024! Happy New Year’s Eve from rhemalogy.com!

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