Hello 2008

I wonder what you've got in store for me new year? My wishes for all my friends:

I wish you Health... So you may enjoy each day in comfort.

I wish you the Love of friends and family... And Peace within your heart.

I wish you the Beauty of nature... That you may enjoy the work of God.

I wish you Wisdom to choose priorities... For those things that really matter in life.

I wish you Generosity so you may share... All good things that come to you.

I wish you Happiness and Joy... And Blessings for the New Year.

I wish you the best of everything... That you so well deserve.

This is what I will be wishing you all when the clock strikes twelve in a couple of hours and we will be fighting hoardes of freezing people on the Embankment Pier listing to Big Ben chime and watching the London Eye fireworks.

Traditionally people all over the world cheer and wish each other a very Happy New Year and will put up with extraordinary hardship to do so - finding baby sitters, spending a fortune on club tickets, drinks that cost more than furniture, fighting public transport queues and barring that perfect spot outside in the harsh winters air.

For some, this event is no more than a change of a calendar. For others, the New Year symbolizes the beginning of a better tomorrow. So, if you look forward to a good year ahead, spread happiness with these wonderful New Year wishes.

Traditional Irish Toast - May your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want.

Minnie L. Haskins - And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied: Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.

Movie: "When Harry Met Sally", Harry Burns - And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Edith Lovejoy Pierce - We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called "Opportunity" and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

Charles Dickens - A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Sydney Smith - Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

Anonymous - Your Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you. But your Happy New Year depends on what you do for others.

William Makepeace Thackeray - Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.

Aisha Elderwyn - Every new year people make resolutions to change aspects of themselves they believe are negative. A majority of people revert back to how they were before and feel like failures. This year I challenge you to a new resolution. I challenge you to just be yourself.

F. M. Knowles, - A Cheerful Year Book - He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

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

John Greenleaf Whittier - We meet todayTo thank Thee for the era done,And Thee for the opening one

T. S. Eliot - For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

Emily Miller - Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer,With never a thought of sorrow;The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes merrily in tomorrow

Martin Luther - Glory to God in highest heaven,Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth,A glad new year to all the earth

Walter Scott - Each age has deemed the new born year - The fittest time for festal cheer

Benjamin Franklin - Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.

Edgar A. Guest - A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.

William Arthur Ward - This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

Charles Lamb - Of all sound of all bells, the most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

Make your choices, hold on tight and enjoy the ride. xxxxx