Resolutions require only words. Results take action.
Resolutions are exhausting. Embrace ease.
The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.
Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.
My New Year's style resolution is to buy and wear more clothing that is handmade by artisans or eco-friendly.
The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.
She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.
It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.
We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.
The question of international norms or international resolutions, you know, coming from Mr. Obama is not really about whether there are international norms or resolutions to uphold.
It's the hardening of these narratives that makes peace so difficult. If each side can see the narrative, the claims that the other has, then there is a much more likely possibility of making a resolution. But what I see is the opposite. There is a total disclaiming of the validity of the other side, and talk that I find really unsettling, the kind of chatter you get from ultra-right Israelis and Hamas is of annihilation. In that kind of dialogue, there's no way to move toward peace.