An optimist stays up until
midnight to see the new year in.
A pessimist stays up to make
sure the old year leaves.

Now there are more overweight people in America
than average-weight people.
So overweight people are now average.
Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

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.

A new year is unfolding –
like a blossom with petals curled
tightly concealing the beauty within.

The New Year, like an Infant
Heir to the whole world,
was waited for, with welcomes,
presents, and rejoicings.

No one ever regarded the First
of January with indifference.
It is that from which all date their time,
and count upon what is left.
It is the nativity of our common Adam.

Today a new sun rises for me;
everything lives,
everything is animated,
everything seems to speak to me of my passion,
everything invites me to cherish it.

Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenly and
with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage,
there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets
to announce the beginning of a new month or year.
Even when a new century begins
it is only we mortals who
ring bells and fire off pistols.

Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.

Happy New Year