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If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you have been divorced, you know it hurts -
especially if your marriage had lasted many years.
Whatever the circumstances of your relationship,
and whatever the nature of its ending,
there is always grief and regret -
perhaps regret over the ending,
or perhaps regret over not ending the relationship sooner -
or perhaps both.
Nonetheless, move past the grief and regret.
No matter how painful, divorce, like all endings,
opens the door to new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key is, to not think of death as an end,
but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.
- the movie Love and Death
Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
The light at the end of the tunnel
may be an oncoming train.
- Anonymous
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
- Audrey Hepburn
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Those who won our independence...
valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When life offers you a dream so far
beyond any of your expectations,
it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall.
He will end by destroying the earth.
- Albert Schweitzer
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,
contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.
- Theodore H. White
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
If we cannot now end our differences,
at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Now this is not the end.
It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Winston Churchill
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Believe that none of the effort you put
into coming closer to God is ever wasted -
even if in the end you don't achieve
what you are striving for.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
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.
- T. S. Eliot
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
Trust your instinct to the end,
though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.
You are you and that is the beginning and the end -
no apologies, no regrets.
- Henry Kissinger
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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