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  • David Gordon, LCSW-R

As we begin the New Year...

As we enter into the New Year, I offer these words of others to guide and inspire us. I continue to be grateful to being a small part of the your journey, past and present, with the warmest wishes for all the best in 2022

2021 Celebration - So, are we celebrating the start of a new year, or having survived the old one?

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up all night to make sure the old year leaves. - Bill Vaughan

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot - Michael Altshuler

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again - Buddah

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start. - Nido Qubein

Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year - Mehmet Murat ildan

Packaged inside of every mistake there lays a great lesson. And while I don’t want to take the mistake into the New Year, I most certainly want to take the lesson that’s packaged inside of it. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I'm mindful of my personal challenges as they are real. I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage. Susan Sontag

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. - Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Be so appreciative of what you have that you have little time for hate, regret or fear.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King

Celebrate what you want to see more of. - Tom Peters

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey

I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better. - Joan Rivers

It always seems impossible until it's done. - Nelson Mandela

David Gordon, LCSW-R

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