Sad Beginnings Can End You Quotes & Sayings

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs. — John Lancaster Spalding

Life has no happy endings, actually, no endings at all, just an ongoing series of beginnings. A story - whether it's happy or sad, whether it makes sense or not, what its meaning is - depends entirely on where you start it and where you end it. — Judith Ryan Hendricks

Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail. — Archibald Marwizi

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition. — Viola Spolin

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do. — Anita Shreve

Folk spend so much time trying to be connected to people because of who they are, what that relationship represents to them or what they think that person can do for them. Just give me people who I know in my heart know God personally. That's the greatest human connection I can have. That's REAL networking. — J'son M. Lee

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within. — Epictetus

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread. — Matt Reeves

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze
About a star of deathless and painless peace
But no astronomer can find where it is. — Ted Hughes

It's very nice to feel. You're nothing. You're just nothing when you're near a volcano. — Katia And Maurice Krafft

One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so - but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous. — Douglas Adams

The more I follow grace, the more I'm drawn to him (God), the more I'm willing to stand up for people being persecuted.. This sounds so churchy, but I felt like God spoke to my heart and said '(homosexuality) is not a sin'. — Jay Bakker

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough. — Bill Gates