Life

• beginning and endings
• change
• life
• live
• mistakes
• worth of
• misc

beginning and endings

• Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.
  --- Tom Stoppard

• The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
  --- HG Wells

• Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.
  --Tom Stoppard

• 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 which has been opened for us
  -- Helen Keller

• God never closes one door without opening another.

change

• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference. There is no conflict between the old and the new; the conflict is between the falseand the true.

• What will see me through the next 20 years (and I am less sure of those 20 than I was of "forever") is my knowledge that even in the face of the sweeping away of all that I assumed to be permanent, even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties, in my definitions, I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me. Stability comes from inside, not outside...
  --- Lucille Clifton

• There is nothing permanent except change
  --- Heraclitus

• Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
  --- Irene Peter

• It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
  --- Mignon McLaughlin

• Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has enemies.
  --- Robert F. Kennedy

• I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
  --- Marie Curie

• Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
  --- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

life

• Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it...
  --- Anne De Lenclos

• Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
  --- Marion Howard

• Life is a voyage in which we choose neither vessel nor weather, but much can be done in the management of the sails and the guidance of the helm.

• Life is not the wick or the candle - it is the burning.

• Life is like a ladder. Every step we take is either up or down.

• ... Life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and love, at times a poem and a high adventure, at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is to come after it - we shall not have this life again.
  --- Rose Macaulay

• The past is behind: learn from it.
  The future is ahead: prepare for it.
  The present is here: live it!
  --- Thomas S. Monson

• I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
  --- William Penn

• It had been repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!). "I trust you; do what you must," life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
  --- Olga Ilyin

• Life is too short to be little.

• Because life is short, it is wise to make it broad.

live

• How many ink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
  --- Joseph Joubert

• Today is the only time we can possibly live.
  --- Dale Carnegie

• Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
  --- Robert Cody

• Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
  --- Conte Vittorio Alfieri

• It takes the whole life to learn how to live.

• Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt, and Dance like you do when nobody's watching.

• Don't hurry. Don't worry. You're only here for a short visit so be sure to stop and smell the flowers.
  --- Walter Hagen

• Live well
  Laugh often
  Love much

• [Life is like a dinner table]. Smile and trying everything. Eat as much as you can of what you like. Spice things up when necessary. And you won't have a good time unless you bring one.
  --- J.Anderson
  Genesis, Chapter Four

mistakes

• The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
  --- Theodore Roosevelt

• A good man does not hesitate to own he has been in the wrong. He takes comfort in knowing he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
  There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but don't respond to encores.
  A mistake is evidence that someone has tried to do something.
  Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
  I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
  --- James Gordon Bennett

• Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
  --- HG Bohn

• The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
  --- Bishop WC Magee

• The past is behind: learn from it.
  The future is ahead: prepare for it.
  The present is here: live it!
  --- Thomas S. Monson

• Learn from the past. Do not come to the end of your life only to find you have not lived. For many come to the point of leaving the space of the earth and when they gaze back, they see the joy and the beauty that could not be theirs because of the fears they lived.
  --- Clearwater

worth of

• There is nothing worth more than this day.
  --- Goethe

• There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability.
  --- Harold B. Lee

• One today is worth two tomorrows.
  --- Fracis Quarles

• This is the beginning of a new day {}
  --- Dr. Hartsell Wilson

last updated: November 17