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"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
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I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
- Lewis Carroll
She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take care of the sense
and the sounds will take care of themselves.
- Lewis Carroll
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
- Lewis Carroll
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
- Lewis Carroll
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things:
of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings."
- Lewis Carroll
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be;
and if it were so, it would be;
but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
- Lewis Carroll
One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure
to dance without cessation;
and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
- Lewis Carroll
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
Begin to define for ourselves
what it is to make a healthy choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
Dream. Begin. Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin your life today, and again tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Begin building the future through
"conversation for possibility."
- Werner Erhard
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Ask why this task is on your to-do list.
Consider discarding those items to which
you are not truly committed.
For the tasks which do speak
to the longings of your own heart,
begin now, today, this moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every decision you make - every decision -
is not a decision about what to do.
It's a decision about Who You Are.
When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes.
You begin to see life in a new way.
All events, occurrences, and situations
turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Cheer for endings - whether goals have been met or not -
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Great relationships begin with two people who are each
self confident and who come to each other with the openness
to see and accept the other as a unique and wonderful person.
If there is true love and an alignment of fundamental values,
choose to join your life with your new partner
and vow never to criticize their nature -
the essence that makes them uniquely themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do you have a plan for your life?
If not, allocate some time today to sit quietly
with pen and paper to begin writing your life plan -
what you want to accomplish with your life,
and what projects will support your goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill
If you don't enjoy your career,
today is the day to begin a long-term plan
for creating a career that interests and excites you.
And, in the short term, even if you hate your job,
look for small joys at work each day,
perhaps in your interactions with customers and co-workers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stop! Breathe deeply.
Begin bringing peace to the outer world
by regaining your own inner peace.
Choose love, choose gratitude,
choose forgiveness, choose peace.
Begin with your own inner peace.
Then use that inner peace
as a platform from which
to approach the outer world
with perspective, understanding, and patience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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