Resolutions Inspirational Quotes

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Jonathan Edwards
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I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater.
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Steve Maraboli (Life, the Truth, and Being Free)
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We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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Emily BrontΓ« (Wuthering Heights)
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This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen!
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Pablo
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Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.
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Alaric Hutchinson
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.
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Winston S. Churchill
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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
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Dante Alighieri (Inferno)
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I am going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes - what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows - what new landscapes - what new beauties - what curves and hills and valleys farther on.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple: 1) Count your blessings first 2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better 3) Go step by step, One day at a time. 4) Create/make your own opportunities. 5) Believe in your abilities at all times, 6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going. 7) Finish what you started
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Pablo
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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
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Abraham Lincoln
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He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself.
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Eric Micha'el Leventhal
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A truly radical resolution would be to embrace existence just as it is, as the only thing that matters, to proclaim that the world itself is heaven, made for our total enjoyment and fulfillment...
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CrimethInc. (Expect Resistance: A Field Manual)
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Wishes are possibilities. Dare to make a wish.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.
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Hillary DePiano (New Year's Thieve)
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Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough it looks good. Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original. Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope. And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth.
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Vera Nazarian (The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration)
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May you find a new grace to live your dreams in coming year.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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To see the first sun rise in New Year is the most sacredness of existence.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Let go of what was and embrace what to be.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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May the New Year bring you new strength, new hope and new dreams.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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After you have suffered great losses and known much pain, it is not cowardice to wish to live henceforth with a minimum of suffering. And one form of heroism, about which few if any films will be made, is having the courage to live without bitterness when bitterness is justified, having the strength to persevere even when perseverance seems unlikely to be rewarded, having the resolution to find profound meaning in life when it seems the most meaningless.
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Dean Koontz (The City (The City, #1))
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Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice.. You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice.
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Ana Claudia Antunes (A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job)
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I was born free, and that I might live in freedom I chose the solitude of the fields; in the trees of the mountains I find society, the clear waters of the brooks are my mirrors, and to the trees and waters I make known my thoughts and charms. I am a fire afar off, a sword laid aside. Those whom I have inspired with love by letting them see me, I have by words undeceived, and if their longings live on hopeβ€”and I have given none to Chrysostom or to any otherβ€”it cannot justly be said that the death of any is my doing, for it was rather his own obstinacy than my cruelty that killed him; and if it be made a charge against me that his wishes were honourable, and that therefore I was bound to yield to them, I answer that when on this very spot where now his grave is made he declared to me his purity of purpose, I told him that mine was to live in perpetual solitude, and that the earth alone should enjoy the fruits of my retirement and the spoils of my beauty; and if, after this open avowal, he chose to persist against hope and steer against the wind, what wonder is it that he should sink in the depths of his infatuation? If I had encouraged him, I should be false; if I had gratified him, I should have acted against my own better resolution and purpose. He was persistent in spite of warning, he despaired without being hated. Bethink you now if it be reasonable that his suffering should be laid to my charge. Let him who has been deceived complain, let him give way to despair whose encouraged hopes have proved vain, let him flatter himself whom I shall entice, let him boast whom I shall receive; but let not him call me cruel or homicide to whom I make no promise, upon whom I practise no deception, whom I neither entice nor receive. It has not been so far the will of Heaven that I should love by fate, and to expect me to love by choice is idle. Let this general declaration serve for each of my suitors on his own account, and let it be understood from this time forth that if anyone dies for me it is not of jealousy or misery he dies, for she who loves no one can give no cause for jealousy to any, and candour is not to be confounded with scorn. Let him who calls me wild beast and basilisk, leave me alone as something noxious and evil; let him who calls me ungrateful, withhold his service; who calls me wayward, seek not my acquaintance; who calls me cruel, pursue me not; for this wild beast, this basilisk, this ungrateful, cruel, wayward being has no kind of desire to seek, serve, know, or follow them. If Chrysostom's impatience and violent passion killed him, why should my modest behaviour and circumspection be blamed? If I preserve my purity in the society of the trees, why should he who would have me preserve it among men, seek to rob me of it? I have, as you know, wealth of my own, and I covet not that of others; my taste is for freedom, and I have no relish for constraint; I neither love nor hate anyone; I do not deceive this one or court that, or trifle with one or play with another. The modest converse of the shepherd girls of these hamlets and the care of my goats are my recreations; my desires are bounded by these mountains, and if they ever wander hence it is to contemplate the beauty of the heavens, steps by which the soul travels to its primeval abode.
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)
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There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
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Hyrum W. Smith
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Each new year is another chance to get love right.
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Aberjhani (Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays)
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The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places… Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.
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Abraham Lincoln
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When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict." -The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding
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Kirsten Siggins (The Power of Curiosity: How to Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding)
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Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. Β  It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creationβ€”a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create.Β 
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year)
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Every New Year brings its sacred blessings.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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If with all your power you kissed the angel of love, what then might happen?
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Aberjhani (The River of Winged Dreams)
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Life is a series of decisions. Whether you make the correct decisions or not doesn’t matter. The important thing is to keep going forward. Years later, when you look back, perhaps you’ll find that the incorrect decisions you made… weren’t really incorrect. Similarly, the correct decisions… might not necessarily have been correct.Β  Why struggle with frustration? Why proceed with confusion? In all things… resolution only comes from continuing to move forward. Following this line of reasoning, if there is no such thing as β€˜incorrect,’ then how can the β€˜correct’ exist? Similarly, if there is no β€˜correct,’ then how can the β€˜incorrect’ exist?
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Er Gen (Nirvanic Rebirth. Blood Everywhere! (I Shall Seal the Heavens ζˆ‘ζ¬²ε°ε€© #5))
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maybe the cure for any burnout is to work harder.
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Phil Knight (Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike)
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Hope your time from the end of the year to start of a new year always sounds 'it will be happier and fruitful'...
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Santosh Kalwar
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There is good in every year.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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You will get what you wish to have.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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We joyfully pray with grateful heart’s to welcome blessings in New Year.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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A fresh day brings new sunrise and new hope for a fresh start.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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There couldn't be a resolution, because life doesn't end on a schedule. It ends in the middle, every time.
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E.J. Copperman (Old Haunts (A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery, #3))
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Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.
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Daoud Hari
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Some of us fail to find the good in the bad because resentment is a shortcut to resolution.
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Jamie George (Poets and Saints: Eternal Insight, Extravagant Love, Ordinary People)
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Your tears are muscles, hinged on wings lunar and solar. Your touch: life and death. (from poem Angel of Mercy)
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Aberjhani (The River of Winged Dreams)
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Don't give in to a single temptation. For every time you do, you strengthen the chain of bad habits. Every time you keep a resolution, you break the chain that enslaves you.
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William Walker Atkinson (The Power of Concentration)
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Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented.
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Prince (The Beautiful Ones)
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Live a life abundant in love and rich in spirit, these are the seeds of a fulfilling existence. Be the safe harbor you seek in the world. Follow your dreams, not your fear. Go into the New Year with an open mind and hopeful heart. Don't let the chains of unforgiveness weigh you down. Life is too short to live in a prison of past hurts. The futures is yours for the taking and creating. Life is bittersweet, when we can let darkness and light co-exist as illumination, we can live in true happiness. When we live life at its best, it is a symphony of feelings, of high and low notes, of tragedy and comedy, love and loss, magic and the sublime. It can be quite a spectacular journey when we fully embrace and accept it.
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Jaeda DeWalt
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Conflict forces us to be fully present because it shatters our ego – stripping away all hope of escape or sugar coating. It removes everything that is nonessential to our authentic being; it removes all superficial layers. Conflict is painful because it wakes us up out of our created illusions. And if we lean into it, conflict can be the catalyst to our enlightenment.
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Alaric Hutchinson
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When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, of a family line, connection. All around him, men were walking silently with their thoughts, reforming their lives, making resolutions. If I ever get out of this lot... They could never be counted, the dreamed-up children, mentally conceived on the walk into Dunkirk, and later made flesh.
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Ian McEwan (Atonement)
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The celebration of a new year has little to do with a new calendar and everything to do with a new start.
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Toni Sorenson
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May the New Year bring you new grace, new gladness and new glory.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?
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Daoud Hari (The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur)
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Look in your disappointments for the resolve to transform your experiences into solutions.
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Bryant McGill (Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life)
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Remember, as adults, we don’t need to always get our way, but we do need to feel heard and genuinely considered.
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Crismarie Campbell (The Beauty of Conflict for Couples: Igniting Passion, Intimacy and Connection in your Relationship)
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To speak truth, sir, I don't understand you at all: I cannot keep up the conversation, because it has got out of my depth. Only one thing I know: you said you were not as good as you should like to be, and that you regretted your own imperfection--one thing I can comprehend: you intimated that to have a sullied memory was a perpetual bane. It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve; and that if from this day you began with resolution to correct your thoughts and actions, you would in a few years have laid up a new and stainless store of recollections, to which you might revert with pleasure.
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Charlotte BrontΓ« (Jane Eyre)
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The dangerously high level of stupidity surplus was once again the lead story in The Owl that morning. The reason for the crisis was clear: Prime Minister Redmond van de Poste and his ruling Commonsense Party had been discharging their duties with a reckless degree of responsibility that bordered on inspired sagacity. Instead of drifting from one crisis to the next and appeasing the nation with a steady stream of knee-jerk legislation and headline-grabbing but arguably pointless initiatives, they had been resolutely building a raft of considered long-term plans that concentrated on unity, fairness and tolerance. It was a state of affairs deplored by Mr. Alfredo Traficcone, leader of the opposition Prevailing Wind Party, who wanted to lead the nation back to the safer ground of uniformed stupidity.
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Jasper Fforde (The Thursday Next Chronicles)
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I have embraced the positive resolution certainly not to entertain any discouragement; anguish and antagonism as I am aware now that I am suppose to use them as a yard tick to measure my accomplishments and victories
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Archibald Gumiro
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MOTHER TIME: Every New Year is the same. Every day, every second is too for that matter. But when we deliver them in secret, when another year just begins as a matter of fact, it's easy to fail to appreciate what a miracle it is to have more time. So, I suppose, it feels different right now because this time you're paying attention
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Hillary DePiano (New Year's Thieve)
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We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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What do you think is going to happen?" "What we make happen," says Josephβ€”again, with resolution. "That's easy to say," says Frank. "Not if you mean it," says Joseph.
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James Baldwin (If Beale Street Could Talk)
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You ought to write down your goals. It serves as a guidepost and gives strength for purposeful action.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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The past is rich history. The present is sacred inscription. The future is yet to be written.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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The sweet fragrance of a fresh New Year!
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Fighting for peace is not the resolution but loving for peace is the solution.
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Debasish Mridha
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What if every moment of conflict is a chance to make your relationship even stronger?
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Crismarie Campbell (The Beauty of Conflict for Couples: Igniting Passion, Intimacy and Connection in your Relationship)
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If one person changes in a relationship, the dynamics shift. So even if you’re the only person who’s willing to make some changesβ€”for nowβ€”that’s enough.
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Crismarie Campbell (The Beauty of Conflict for Couples: Igniting Passion, Intimacy and Connection in your Relationship)
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Let us, with songs of praise, embrace the sacred year.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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I wish you a great grace to fulfill your dreams in the New Year.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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You are going to take the high sea of the world; change not, on that account, patron or sails, anchor or wind. Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously. May the favorable wind of celestial inspirations ever fill your vessel's sails fuller and fuller and make you happily arrive at the port of a holy eternity.
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Francis de Sales
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Beautiful morning and the bright day started together, the light of dawn has spread everywhere; animals and birds are doing their own works, may the new morning brings new possibilities into your life." Good Morning
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Rupali Mitra (Sam's New Year Resolution ( comic book) (Sam is an all-rounder Book 2))
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Il passato non si puΓ² cambiare, con l'accettazione, il perdono, la penitenza e risoluzione, possiamo ampliare il futuro. The past cannot be changed. With acceptance, forgiveness, atonement and resolution, we can broaden the future.
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Angelica Hopes (Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul (Speranza Odyssey Trilogy, #1))
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Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion? ...Religion closes off the central questions of existence by attempting to dissuade us from further enquiry by asserting that we cannot ever hope to comprehend. We are, religion asserts, simply too puny. Through fear of being shown to be vacuous, religion denies the awesome power of human comprehension. It seeks to thwart, by encouraging awe in things unseen, the disclosure of the emptiness of faith. Religion, in contrast to science, deploys the repugnant view that the world is too big for our understanding. Science, in contrast to religion, opens up the great questions of being to rational discussion, to discussion with the prospect of resolution and elucidation. Science, above all, respects the power of the human intellect. Science is the apotheosis of the intellect and the consummation of the Renaissance. Science respects more deeply the potential of humanity than religion ever can.
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Peter Atkins (Nature's Imagination: The Frontiers of Scientific Vision)
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Carefree Scamps like you and I go through transition stages from time to time, and one of the exceptional things about life's challenges is that we get to discover what we’re truly capable of. You, my friend, are more spirited, resolute, and fearless than you can ever imagine. And on the flip side you’re more immoral and foolhardy than most people could ever dream of being. Isn’t that great?
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Karl Wiggins (Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe)
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The initial response the Buddha intends to arouse in us is an ethical one. By calling our attention to our bondage to old age and death, he seeks to inspire in us a firm resolution to turn away from unwholesome ways of living and to embrace instead wholesome alternatives.
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Bhikkhu Bodhi (In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon (The Teachings of the Buddha))
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Christmas and New Year should not be a temporary dose of heroine to sedate people and have them consume more goods, go on vacations, or sit with family and friends at the dinner tables of triviality to boast presumed β€˜achievements’ or share pathetic stories about β€˜changing the world’.
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Louis Yako
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Oh, my friends, the first wish I have for the new year is to change the worn-out greeting: 'happy new year'. There is no happiness, only fleeting moments of joy. There is nothing new under the sun, only new ways of looking at the same eternal challenges and unresolved questions. There is no point in wishing for a perfect health in a profoundly sick world – the view is much clearer and more interesting when living on the edge. And so, I wish you all endurance as we go through another difficult year. I wish you courage to snatch a few more days (or moments) of joy as another year slips through the fingers of Time. I wish you much strength to maintain your equilibrium as we face new earthquakes of uncertainty in the coming year. Most of all, I wish we never give up on the possibility of doing things otherwise. And, of course, I wish you much love.
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Louis Yako
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The Louis XIII style in perfumery, composed of the elements dear to that period - orris-powder, musk, civet and myrtle-water, already known by the name of angel-water - was scarcely adequate to express the cavalierish graces, the rather crude colours of the time which certain sonnets by Saint-Amand have preserved for us. Later on, with the aid of myrrh and frankincense, the potent and austere scents of religion, it became almost possible to render the stately pomp of the age of Louis XIV, the pleonastic artifices of classical oratory, the ample, sustained, wordy style of Bossuet and the other masters of the pulpit. Later still, the blase, sophisticated graces of French society under Louis XV found their interpreters more easily in frangipane and marechale, which offered in a way the very synthesis of the period. And then, after the indifference and incuriosity of the First Empire, which used eau-de-Cologne and rosemary to excess, perfumery followed Victor Hugo and Gautier and went for inspiration to the lands of the sun; it composed its own Oriental verses, its own highly spiced salaams, discovered intonations and audacious antitheses, sorted out and revived forgotten nuances which it complicated, subtilized and paired off, and in short resolutely repudiated the voluntary decrepitude to which it had been reduced by its Malesherbes, its Boileaus, its Andrieux, its Baour-Lormians, the vulgar distillers of its poems.
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Joris-Karl Huysmans (Against Nature)
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Practice bravery every day and the self-worth will come.
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Alaric Hutchinson
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Bravery is listening even when you don't want to hear it.
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Alaric Hutchinson
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You’re as strong as your resolutions!
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Israelmore Ayivor (Six Words Inspiration)
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The start of your day should be filled with hope for new opportunities, positive energy for resolutions and the excitement of what lies ahead.
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Michael S. Moore
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Life is enduring endeavour
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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You ought to ask God for a specific task. And He will grant you grace to accomplish it.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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A fresh year, a fresh life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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New Year eve is an ecstasy of new anticipation.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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We joyfully pray with grateful heart to welcome blessings in New Year.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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We joyfully pray with grateful hearts, to welcome the sacred-blessings in New Year
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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May God grant your a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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May God grant you a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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God gives a new grace for every new quest.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Place yourself before a hive, and see the indefatigable energy of these industrious veterans, toiling along with their heavy burdens, side by side with their more youthful compeersΒ .Β .Β . Let the cheerful hum of their busy old age inspire you with better resolutions, and teach you how much nobler it is to die with harness on, in the active discharge of the duties of life.
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Eileen Garvin (The Music of Bees)
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Colored like a sunset tide is a gaze sharply slicing through the reflective glass. A furrowed brow is set much too seriously, as if trying to unfold the pieces of the face that stared back at it. One eyebrow is raised skeptically, always calculating and analyzing its surroundings. I tilt my head trying to see the deeper meaning in my features, trying to imagine the connection between my looks and my character as I stare in the mirror for the required five minutes. From the dark brown hair fastened tightly in a bun, a curl as bright as woven gold comes loose. A flash of unruly hair prominent through the typical browns is like my temper; always there, but not always visible. I begin to grow frustrated with the girl in the mirror, and she cocks her hip as if mocking me. In a moment, her lips curve in a half smile, not quite detectable in sight but rather in feeling, like the sensation of something good just around the corner. A chin was set high in a stubborn fashion, symbolizing either persistence or complete adamancy. Shoulders are held stiff like ancient mountains, proud but slightly arrogant. The image watches with the misty eyes of a daydreamer, glazed over with a sort of trance as if in the middle of a reverie, or a vision. Every once and a while, her true fears surface in those eyes, terror that her life would amount to nothing, that her work would have no impact. Words written are meant to be read, and sometimes I worry that my thoughts and ideas will be lost with time. My dream is to be an author, to be immortalized in print and live forever in the minds of avid readers. I want to access the power in being able to shape the minds of the young and open, and alter the minds of the old and resolute. Imagine the power in living forever, and passing on your ideas through generations. With each new reader, a new layer of meaning is uncovered in writing, meaning that even the author may not have seen. In the mirror, I see a girl that wants to change the world, and change the way people think and reason. Reflection and image mean nothing, for the girl in the mirror is more than a one dimensional picture. She is someone who has followed my footsteps with every lesson learned, and every mistake made. She has been there to help me find a foothold in the world, and to catch me when I fall. As the lights blink out, obscuring her face, I realize that although that image is one that will puzzle me in years to come, she and I aren’t so different after all.
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K.D. Enos
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It's all there, it's all waiting. Of course it can be done; it depends upon ourselves. You say: "But again, we're scattered individuals. Everything's against us. Governments, money, press, television - all the new forces are used against us." All the great forces, all the material powers of the world, you say, are against you. And so they are - you're quite right to feel that. And I don't underrate them, but I don't despair and you shouldn't despair. Because you, like I, have read something of history. You know something of the record of the achievement of Europeans. And dark as this hour is, it's no darker, it's not as dark as some of the hours you've known in European history. When everything was cowardice, treachery, and betrayal. And when the Saracen hordes from far outside Europe swept right across that continent, and would've come on over our own Britain too, if they hadn't been stopped. And it didn't only happen once, it's happened more than once. Small bands of men in resolution, in absolute determination, giving themselves completely and saying "Europe shall live!" And they stood firm and faced the menace to Europe: its values, its civilizations, the glory of its achievement - all those things in mortal danger. And they stood firm, they faced it, they came together, and more and more ran it to their standards, and those hordes were thrown back. Again and again and again, our Europe lived in triumph because the will of Europe still endured! We've got other forces against us - not those particular forces, but the power of money, the power of press. All those things are against us. And how can you stop it? My friends, by an act of will, an act of the European will. My friends, today, just as much as in the past, we can meet the dark forces which in another way threaten our European life with eternal night. We can rally those forces, and in the end, we can prevail and we can triumph!
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Oswald Mosley
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Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens....inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which asserted that knowledge of the nature of things is in the nature of things unattainable. Such ideas were well judged to appeal to a student of rhetoric who had learned to argue all sides of a case. In his early twenties Cicero wrote the first two volumes of a work on 'inventin'--that is to say, the technique of finding ideas and arguments for a speech; in it he noted that the most important thing was 'that we do not recklessly and presumptuously assume something to be true.' This resolute uncertainty was to be a permanent feature of his thought.
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Anthony Everitt (Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician)
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It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve; and that if from this day you began with resolution to correct your thoughts and actions, you would in a few years have laid up a new and stainless store of recollections, to which you might revert with pleasure.
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Charlotte BrontΓ«
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I like to end our discussions with the phrase, β€œAll is well in all of creation.” That is a statement of compassion. It's all going to work out, or rather, it's already worked out. It's natural spiritual physics. Energy seeks resolution, consciousness evolves, and there is no such thing as chaos. There's only lack of awareness about what's really going on!
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Geoffrey Hoppe (Live Your Divinity: Inspirations for New Consciousness)
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Happy New Year? Oh, dear friends, this statement is like a dagger that gets pushed one inch deeper into my chest each time I hear it…Oh, my friends, let’s not celebrate the traditional holidays that no longer mean anything to many of us. Let’s find a new celebration day to celebrate every human life. Let’s do away with all celebrations imposed on us by the oppressive political and religious establishments around the world. Let’s stop killing each other. Let’s stop waging wars against each other. Let’s stop imposing economic sanctions on each other. Let’s stop closing borders in the face of each other. Let’s do away with all the fake, expensive, shiny, and nicely wrapped gifts of indifference. Let’s work a bit harder on the most precious human gift possibleβ€”the gift of listening carefully to each other.
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Louis Yako
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The days became for Christina endless preparation. Ceaseless winds tore through her massing battle ranks, the grey cold sun above marking the timeless date. With skies of blue and cloud overhead, driving, uncompromising time stood still, lingering, as if giving Christina precious eons to perfect her shaving straight razor cuts of mind and sword. She worked alone now, forging the essence of herself in the policies and ways of hammer and anvil, pounding away with the classic, living Japanese blade. Her deft hands spun dervishly, wroughting out the iron of her will, fashioning a blade-mind remade unto her. --Brickley, The Lady and the Samurai
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Douglas M. Laurent
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I’m really enjoying my solitude after feeling trapped by my family, friends and boyfriend. Just then I feel like making a resolution. A new year began six months ago but I feel like the time for change is now. No more whining about my pathetic life. I am going to change my life this very minute. Feeling as empowered as I felt when I read The Secret, I turn to reenter the hall. I know what I’ll do! Instead of listing all the things I’m going to do from this moment on, I’m going to list all the things I’m never going to do! I’ve always been unconventional (too unconventional if you ask my parents but I’ll save that account for later). I mentally begin to make my list of nevers. -I am never going to marry for money like Natasha just did. -I am never going to doubt my abilities again. -I am never going to… as I try to decide exactly what to resolve I spot an older lady wearing a bright red velvet churidar kurta. Yuck! I immediately know what my next resolution will be; I will never wear velvet. Even if it does become the most fashionable fabric ever (a highly unlikely phenomenon) I am quite enjoying my resolution making and am deciding what to resolve next when I notice Az and Raghav holding hands and smiling at each other. In that moment I know what my biggest resolve should be. -I will never have feelings for my best friend’s boyfriend. Or for any friend’s boyfriend, for that matter. That’s four resolutions down. Six more to go? Why not? It is 2012, after all. If the world really does end this year, at least I’ll go down knowing I completed ten resolutions. I don’t need to look too far to find my next resolution. Standing a few centimetres away, looking extremely uncomfortable as Rags and Az get more oblivious of his existence, is Deepak. -I will never stay in a relationship with someone I don’t love, I vow. Looking for inspiration for my next five resolutions, I try to observe everyone in the room. What catches my eye next is my cousin Mishka giggling uncontrollably while failing miserably at walking in a straight line. Why do people get completely trashed in public? It’s just so embarrassing and totally not worth it when you’re nursing a hangover the next day. I recoil as memories of a not so long ago night come rushing back to me. I still don’t know exactly what happened that night but the fragments that I do remember go something like this; dropping my Blackberry in the loo, picking it up and wiping it with my new Mango dress, falling flat on my face in the middle of the club twice, breaking my Nine West heels, kissing an ugly stranger (Az insists he was a drug dealer but I think she just says that to freak me out) at the bar and throwing up on the Bandra-Worli sea link from Az’s car. -I will never put myself in an embarrassing situation like that again. Ever. I usually vow to never drink so much when I’m lying in bed with a hangover the next day (just like 99% of the world) but this time I’m going to stick to my resolution. What should my next resolution be?
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Anjali Kirpalani (Never Say Never)