Endings Being New Beginnings Quotes

• 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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• Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, New Beginnings, Yesterday

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  You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 16, 2014

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• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Beginnings, Able, Violence

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1986). “Rodin and Other Prose Pieces”

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• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

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

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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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• If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

  Rumi

  Motivational, Inspiring, Recovery

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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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• Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

  Byron Katie

  New Beginnings, Simple, Life Is

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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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• And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Year, Nature, New Beginnings

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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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• Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Goodbye, Art, Business

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Revolution for the Hell of It (1968).

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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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• The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  New Beginnings, Tunnels, New Start

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

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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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• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  J. B. Priestley

  Life, Motivational, Good Morning

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• Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

  Alan Cohen

  Motivational, Change, Success

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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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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• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Softball

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• The first day of the rest of my life.

  Lee Child

  Good Morning, Beauty, Live Life

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.633, Delacorte Press

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