Beginning Again

Beginning Again

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
- Seneca

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 Throsby Bridges

Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I choose not to project my past onto my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I recognize that the person I was in my past is not the person I am today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Old Chinese Sayings

Old Chinese Sayings

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings

Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
- John Galsworthy

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends.
Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
- Anonymous

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep
so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned,
we might as well never have lived.
- Harold Kushner

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things
than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
- The Buddha

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

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anaïs Nin

Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

Would you rather be right or happy?

Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Training yourself to live in the present -
without regretting the past or fearing the future -
is a recipe for a happy life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
- Cesar Chavez

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
- Wayne Dyer

Get over it - Life isn't Supposed to be fair.
Get over yourself, and be of service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway.
You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple.
It's all down to you, mate.
- John Lennon

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha

Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live with intention

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache,
carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
- Napoleon Hill

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Winners Never Quit, and Quitters Never Win.
- Vince Lombardi

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
- Henry Ford

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
- Ross Perot

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
- Henry Ford

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Don't give up.
There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
- Zig Ziglar

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. - Erma Bombeck

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde

Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole

Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice.

Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

To live is to choose.
But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack

CALM IN CHAOS
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. - Kay Knudsen

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran

When you are sorrowful look into your heart and
you shall see that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
- Khalil Gibran

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.
- Donald Cargill

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen

I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
- Oprah Winfrey

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Sharpen your pencil as you create the story of your life.
Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view -
what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities?
When you answer that,
seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply
by applying your focused effort.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

Welcome to these Quotes about Friendship. Let these friendship quotes and sayings help you to more deeply appreciate the value of your close personal relationships and to become even closer to each of your true friends.

True friendships are characterized more by a deep trust than by any other single characteristic. People often say that the measure of a friendship is how comfortable they feel with the other person. While that observation is very true, the level of comfort one feels is generally a measure of the degree of trust inherent in the relationship. One can be comfortable in the presence of another only when there is a high level of mutual trust.

There is an old proverb of unknown origin that is often phrased,

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

There is a degree of truth in that saying in the sense that people (or groups, or countries) that have common enemies tend to bond together for emotional as well as physical support and defense. However, the nature of such a relationship is quite different from that of a true friendship - largely because the element of trust is usually absent.

A personal friendship that is based largely on having mutual enemies, or a mutual dislike or mutual fear, and in which a deep mutual trust is not present, is unlikely to be a true, satisfying, and lasting relationship.

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

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Happiness blooms in the presence of self-respect and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance, as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
- Larry David

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller

Happiness is a direction, not a place.
- Sydney J. Harris

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller

ime, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.

To create a meaningful life: Dream it; Pursue it;
Persevere courageously; Keep focus and ignore distractions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dreams are important.
Without dreams to guide your future, you become lost,
and your every choice and action become random and meaningless.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a Book of Riddles, with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed
suffering. The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When the vast cathedral of our being becomes a sanctuary for all creation, we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy increases and suffering decreases as one masters the distinction between events and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your playing small does not serve the world.

Meaningful Quotes

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future:
It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology;
it covers both the natural and the spiritual,
and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things,
natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
- Albert Einstein

The essence of all religions is One.
Surrender is the main duty of everyone.
Surrender means the feeling of oneness,
I and God are One. Why?
The reason is that the One who is present in you is present in me.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson

Every wall is a door.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it,
no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

- Marianne Williamson

Deep Quotes that Make You Think - Deep Quotes on Life

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

- Nelson Mandela

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
- Meister Eckhart

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Theodore H. White

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Deep Quotes about Life - Deep Life Quotes

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow