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Beginnings/Endings

"Easy is right. Begin right, and you will be easy. Continue easy and you are right... The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy." Chuang Tzu

"A hard beginning maketh a good ending." John Heywood

"If you don't know what you're doing, you don't know when to stop." unknown

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are." John Pierpont Morgan

"May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions." Joey Adams

"Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace." Ronald Reagan

"To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin." *Martin Buber*

"Why plan to fix it later, when you can get it right at the start?" Harley Brown

"Great journeys start with the space between one's feet." Lao-Tzu

“You do not have to be a hurricane to turn things around.” Marleen Loesje

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another." John Dewey

“Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.” H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

“Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” Ralph Blum

“With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.” Anonymous

“Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” Mary Anne “Macy Bryce Lewis” Radmacher

“There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over—and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.” Ellen Goodman

“So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.” Florence Nightingale

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