The battle starts in our minds
I HOPE you all had the merriest Christmas with your loved ones. This happy holiday season also heralds the ending of the year, and the beginning of a new chapter in our lives.
No matter how crazy and busy our schedules haven been in the last days of the year, let us find those solemn moments to be quiet and reflect on the gift and lessons 2015 has brought us as we welcome the coming of 2016.
As we aspire and strive to make 2016 a better year, let us be guided by positive healthy thoughts on the first day of the year, and everyday thereafter. Remember that the battle starts in our minds, and so let us feed our minds with thoughts of hope, faith and victory.
HAVE A BLESSED 2016!
Below are some of my favorites that I gather from many sources.
“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
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot
“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
“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
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” -Walt Disney
“All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.” – Steven Spielberg
“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
“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” – Cavett Robert
“For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” – George Sheehan
“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.” – G.K. Chesterton
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“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.” – Neil Gaiman
“Here’s to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old; here’s to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold.” – Unknown
“Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead..” – Philippians 3:13
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Gel Santos Relos is the anchor of TFC’s “Balitang America.” Views and opinions expressed by the author in this column are are solely those of the author and not of Asian Journal and ABS-CBN-TFC. For comments, go to www.TheFil-AmPerspective.com, https://www.facebook.com/Gel.Santos.Relos
