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And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
Sep 17, 2025
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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.
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
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.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
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.
Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.
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.
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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.
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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.
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.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
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.
A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
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.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.
The first day of the rest of my life.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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.
I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Do your best with what you have where you are.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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.
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.