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• Dad gave me two pieces of advice. One was, "No matter how good you think you are, there are people better than you." But he was an optimist too; his other advice: "Never worry about rejection. Every day is a new beginning."

  John Ritter

  Dad, Thinking, Two

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• I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Happiness, Morning, Get Well

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• But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child?  The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.'  For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brother, Children, Games

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• Have your new year's resolutions been a new beginning for you or have they just been different words on the same old beginning? Maybe now's the time to establish a new pattern of viewing your life fresh.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  New Year, Years, Different

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom, Doing You

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• Imagination rules the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Positive, War, Imagination

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.107, Fireship Press

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• There is a mental space that we consciously makes our way back to, and give honour to what has formed us in this mental homeland which we carry with us always. It is important not to try to annihilate it but to take your courage in your hands and go back, and then I think you can more easily make a new beginning. A lot of us would like to know how to do this.

  Robert Dessaix

  Thinking, Hands, Space

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• The single difference between films for children and films for adults is that in films for children, there is always the option to start again, to create a new beginning. In films for adults, there are no ways to change things. What happened, happened.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Differences, Adults

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Single Mom, Understanding, Moments

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• The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

  Peter Medawar

  Change, Nature, Ideas

  "The Art of the Soluble". Book by Peter Medawar, 1967.

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• Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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• If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Leadership, Work

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• When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

  Russell Baker

  Opportunity, People, President

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• Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Work, Expression

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (19??). “Gleams From..: Being Passages Selected and Translated from the Prose Writings of Goethe and from His Converstaions with Eckermann”

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• All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

  Mae West

  Love, Sad, Boyfriend

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fashion, Simple, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A good beginning makes a good end.

  Louis L'Amour

  Beginnings And Ends, Happy New Year Inspirational, Starting

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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

  Able, Violence, Should

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

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• My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring--delight , sadness, joy, wisdom--and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings.

  Fred Rogers

  Sadness, Sleep, Caring

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning. As we gather around our dining room tables for the midday meal, let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.

  Ronald Reagan

  New Year, Blessing, Opportunity

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Alive, Persons

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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

  Byron Katie

  Simple, Life Is, New Day New Beginning

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• Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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• All endings are inexorably tied to new beginnings. That's the
  nature of the journey. It continues to unfold. It builds on
  itself. It can't help itself from doing that. Cherish the moments,
  all of them. You have seen and felt much in life so far. But still,
  the best is yet to come.

  Melody Beattie

  Journey, Best Is Yet To Come, Helping

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