One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: to rise above the little things. – Author unknown

I found that a new oath holds pretty well; but… when it is become old and frayed out and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. – Mark Twain (1835–1910), speech, Tile Club Dinner for Laurence Hutton, New

The rose of the old year withers away as the new bud begins to bloom. – Terri Guillemets, “Withered,” 2004