As December comes to a close, and we're stuffed with food, friends, and family, many look toward the new year as a time for pause and reflection. Looking for inspiration for your New Years resolution to make 2016 your year? Here are a few quotes from some of our favorite artists and writers on making—and not making—resolutions:

1. “A new heart for a New Year, always!”―Dickens, The Chimes

2. "I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something." ―Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com

3. "And now, let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been…"―Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

4. "Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual…"―Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals

5. "I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.” — Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3, 1923-1927

6. "You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting…so get on your way!" ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

7. "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is―infinite."― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell