Endings Being New Beginnings Quotes

• 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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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Dance, Recovery

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Spring, New Beginnings

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• When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.

  Eileen Caddy

  Motivational, Positive, Recovery

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• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Softball

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

  John Galsworthy

  New Beginnings, Self Help, Humans

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

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• Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

  Anna Quindlen

  Literature, Life Is, Middle

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

  Byron Katie

  Life, Positive, Wisdom

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• The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Change, Starting Over

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.10, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

  Ben Stein

  Moving On, Time, Failure

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• Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

  Barbara Sher

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.201, Dell

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.

  Marsha Petrie Sue

  New Year, New Beginnings, Might

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• The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

  Rebecca West

  Strength, Success, Encouraging

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• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Motivational, New Year

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Myth of Sisyphus”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Life, Being Yourself

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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

  New Beginnings, Wish, May

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

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Change, Goodbye

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

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• Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Letting Go, Spring, Struggle

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• The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

  Solomon

  Bible, Knowledge, Understanding God

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• The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Teacher, Appreciation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

  Baltasar Gracian

  What Matters, People, Common

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