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Every day is a new beginning. All of life provides opportunities for new beginnings. Whatever has gone wrong, or right, in your life, you can begin again.
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What is a "new beginning?" Regarding your career, a new beginning might mean getting a different job, but it also might mean changing your whole career path - becoming an artistic woodworker rather than looking for your next job in the insurance business. Best of all, a new beginning might mean a new approach - a new attitude toward your job - a new set of goals - a new vision. If you have always looked at your job from the point of view of striving for the next promotion or raise, perhaps a new beginning could be looking at your job from the point of view of enjoying your interactions with your co-workers, customers, and others - getting to know them better - making it a more personal experience. Of course, a new beginning in your career could combine a new job or field with a new less monetary attitude. In the insurance to woodworker example, the career change is almost certainly motivated by values other than money.
While a new beginning in relationship, could mean a new person in your life, consider also that a new beginning could be a new way of looking at an existing relationship - choosing to hold a different set of expectations (that is demands) of your relationship and your partner - viewing the relationship in a whole new light. That is fully as much a new beginning as choosing a new partner. In fact, changing your expectations for being in relationship is a bigger new beginning that merely swinging the revolving door of lovers one more time. In each of your relationships, you are always there. You are the element that is common to all your relationships, so if you have a pattern of failed relationships, consider examining your expectations for relationship - not settling for less, but seeking a fully engaged yet self-confident and self-directed partner, rather than seeking perceived security, wealth, services (chores), and domination or submission.
Changing yourself is a far more crucial new beginning than replacing the people in your life, or attempting the impossible task of changing the natures of those who remain in your life.
What about a new beginning with your family? You can't choose a new family - at least not new blood relatives. But, you can have a new beginning with your family by changing your attitude and your expectations. Start by taking them less seriously - not in the sense of reducing the importance of your bond with family, but by becoming less critical of what they say and do. So what if Aunt Jane always tells the same stories and Uncle Max forgets your children's names - does it really matter in the long run? Is it worth stressing over? Or disowning your family. Even if you have a really big dirty family secret like incest, no good comes to you now for holding resentment and hatred. View everything your family says as merely their opinion - because that is exactly what it always has been. Whether you agree or disagree, whether you find it interesting or boring, whatever they say is their opinion, nothing more and nothing less.
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
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
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
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
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
- Henry Ford
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Let every day be the first day of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I set my own course through the ocean of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
-
Mae West
Love conquers all.
- Virgil
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anaïs Nin
We come to beginnings only at the end.
-
William Throsby Bridges
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
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having set a direction, begin - begin today. Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you want in life, start today. Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a new beginning with your family - choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever happened in the past, forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the cleansing fire that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Train yourself to live in the present - without regretting the past or fearing the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
-
John Galsworthy
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends.
Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
- Anonymous
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep
so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned,
we might as well never have lived.
-
Harold Kushner
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things
than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
- The Buddha
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.
-
Anna Quindlen
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-
Seneca
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.
-
William Throsby Bridges
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose not to project my past onto my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I recognize that the person I was in my past is not the person I am today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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