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• Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

  William Bridges

  Wish, May, Firsts

  William Bridges (2004). “Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes”, p.164, Da Capo Press

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• New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

  Laozi

  Cancer, Hard Times, Fresh Start

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• It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiring, Want, Accomplish

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• The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

  John Galsworthy

  Self Help, Humans, Beginnings And Endings

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.4361, Delphi Classics

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• Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Blessing, All Things, Seeds

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.105, Northwestern University Press

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• The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

  Lucretius

  Creativity, Eye, Vision

  "De rerum natura".

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• I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.

  Amy Irving

  Careers, Feelings, Enough

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• Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

  Robert Collier

  Death, Simple, Men

  Robert Collier (1948). “The Secret of the Ages”

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• The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Calling, Scared, Indicators

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.40, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

  Barack Obama

  War, Responsibility, Civilization

  Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

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• Good seasons start with good beginnings.

  Sparky Anderson

  Seasons

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• As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?

  Kurt Masur

  New York, People, Needs

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• Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Philosophy, Philosophical

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 12

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• One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

  George Eliot

  Men, Finding Yourself, Starting A New Beginning

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.91, Penguin

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• The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

  Hal Borland

  Wisdom, Lying, Deceit

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• You can't start at the top.

  Sam Levenson

  Fresh Start, Action, Getting Started

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• There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, Change, Time

  "Lonely on the Mountain".

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• So the big question is, "Well, do I just dump all those unwanted things and try to start fresh?" And we say, no. You just set the Tone, where you are, by looking for things to appreciate. And by setting your Tone in a very clear deliberate way, anything that doesn't match it gravitates out of your experience, and anything that does match it gravitates into your experience. It is so much simpler than most of you are allowing yourself to believe.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Appreciation

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• Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!

  Oral Roberts

  Inspirational, God, Faith

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• You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Waiting

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• It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Motivational, Summer, Softball

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

  Junot Diaz

  Love, Relationship, Break Up

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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