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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach 
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
That's what learning is, after all;
not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and h
ow we've changed because of it
and what we take away from it
that we never had before,
to apply to other games.
Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
- Richard Bach
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
In the uttermost meaning of the words,
thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
The light at the end of the tunnel
may be an oncoming train.
- Anonymous
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
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
- Audrey Hepburn
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
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
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
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
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
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
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
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
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
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
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
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
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
If we cannot now end our differences,
at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
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
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
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
Trust your instinct to the end,
though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
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
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
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world
doesn't mean you are wiser
than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
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)
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
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
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Don't fall for looks, they can deceive.
Don't fall for wealth, in the end it fades away.
Find someone who makes you smile
because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
- Anonymous
It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Neale Donald Walsch
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
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
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
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
At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
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