January 2026 - Transition & Change, News
January 1, 2026

New Beginnings

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’”

― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”

― Dolly Parton

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.”

― T.S. Eliot

“Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

―Wizard of Oz

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

— C.S. Lewis

“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.”

― Ellen Goodman

“Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.”

—Anon.

“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”

— George Eliot

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

— L.M. Montgomery

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

― Taylor Swift

“Let’s all do our part to create change in our communities and build a better world for everyone.”

― Michele Obama

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.”

― Susan Sontag

“The past has its own terrible inevitability, but it is never too late to change the future.”

― Heather Cox Richardson

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