Edvard Munch – New Snow. Wikimedia Commons
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful”
W.T. Ellis
This festive season, as is my end of year custom on waysofthinking.co.uk, I have selected some of the most pertinent quotes from posts I wrote in 2023, along with some beautiful seasonal images. I’ll also include some quotes I’ve put on Twitter, the ones which you have indicated you have liked the most.
I offer these quotes and images to provide food for thought at the end of this year. My wish is that you may see them as a gift, offered with love and good thoughts as the year draws to a close.
I hope those of you who celebrate it had a good Christmas, and that my posts may bring you some warmth, insight, hope, comfort and love….and, perhaps, some new Ways of Thinking to carry forward into the New Year.❤️
Winter landscape, Christmas Eve – Fritz Von Uhde. 1890. Wikioo
“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”
Carl Jung
A Christmas Carol – Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Wikioo.
“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract & profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”
Oliver Sacks
Still Life in Winter – Charles Ephraim Burchfield.1951. Wikioo.
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
Anais Nin.
Winter Sun – Charles Ephraim Burchfield. Wikioo
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
Paulo Coelho
Marco Verch Professional Photographer. Flickr. Happy New Year 2024
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.”
T.S. Eliot
Father Frost Carries the New-Year Tree – Maria Primachenko. 1967. Wikioo
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
As 2024 approaches, I want to express my appreciation to every single one of my readers for your wonderful encouragement and support, interest and feedback. My follower numbers and post viewings are dramatically increasing every year. ❤️ Thank you for following waysofthinking.co.uk.
I wish you all peace and love – whatever your race, ethnicity, age, language, ability, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, beliefs. Sending you season’s greetings and a very happy, healthy 2024!
❤️🌲🧚♀️ See you all next year with some exciting new posts! Linda xxx
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Thank you for aharing your thoughts and the lovely quotes.
Debx
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Deb, thank you, you are most welcome. I appreciate your feedback. 🎄❤️
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Thank you for your inspirational quotations that help make it a best-ever new year!
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Aww Janet, that’s a lovely comment! Thank you so much. I hope this coming year is a good and happy one for you and yours. I’ll do my best to keep my quotation and writing standards up in
2024! 🥂❤️
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