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#1

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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#2

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: planning, preparation

1131 likes

#3

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: planning

407 likes

#4

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
― Peter F. Drucker

tags: commitment, persistence, planning, resolve

310 likes

#5

“Fail to plan, plan to fail.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History

tags: planning

45 likes

#6

“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: entertainment, fear, fiction, phobia, predictability, reality, unpredictability, unpredictability-of-life

60 likes

#7

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

tags: exploration, home, new-beginnings

595 likes

#8

“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

tags: angel-poetry, bridges, faith, famous-quotes, famous-quotes-from-classic-books, healing, inspiration, inspiring-quotes, metaphysics, new-beginnings, new-year, perseverance, philosophy, poem-in-your-pocket-day, quotes-by-aberjhani, re-birth, rebirth, recovery, resurrection, spirituality, starting-over, visions, world-suicide-prevention-day

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#9

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: mornings, new-beginnings, steinbeck, travel

197 likes

#10

“You raze the old to raise the new.”
― Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

tags: new-beginnings

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#11

“Perhaps that is where our choice lies -- in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.”
― Elana K. Arnold, Burning

tags: change, new-beginnings

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#12

“Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

tags: buddhism, healing, new-beginnings, spirituality, unknown

328 likes

#13

“Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Sever

tags: broken, fire, new-beginnings

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#14

“Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

734 likes

#15

“I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.”
― Lauren Myracle

tags: funny, home, life

2054 likes

#16

“Home isn't a place, its a feeling”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

tags: home

276 likes

#17

“While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.”
― Jonah Lehrer

tags: nature, nurture

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#18

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
― Marvin J. Ashton

tags: best, build, find, forgiveness, forgiving, heart, love, nurture, people, understand, understanding

868 likes

#19

“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography

tags: education, encouragement, instruction, learning, school

577 likes

#20

“You can't eat straight A's.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

tags: expectations, poverty, school

72 likes

#21

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement

1679 likes

#22

“But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.”
― Melanie Bennett, Learning to Dance in the Rain

tags: autism, caregiver, family-relationships, grief-and-loss, special-needs

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#23

“As a functional Aspergian adult, one thing troubles me deeply about those kids who end up behind the second door. Many descriptions of autism and Asperger’s describe people like me as “not wanting contact with others” or “preferring to play alone.” I can’t speak for other kids, but I’d like to be very clear about my own feelings: I did not ever want to be alone. And all those child psychologists who said “John prefers to play by himself” were dead wrong. I played by myself because I was a failure at playing with others. I was alone as a result of my own limitations, and being alone was one of the bitterest disappointments of my young life.”
― John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

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#24

“I needed to stop forcing myself to fit into something I could never be a part of.”
― John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye

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#25

“My conversational difficulties highlight a problem Aspergians face every day. A person with an obvious disability—for example, someone in a wheelchair—is treated compassionately because his handicap is obvious. No one turns to a guy in a wheelchair and says, “Quick! Let’s run across the street!” And when he can’t run across the street, no one says, “What’s his problem?” They offer to help him across the street. With me, though, there is no external sign that I am conversationally handicapped. So folks hear some conversational misstep and say, “What an arrogant jerk!” I look forward to the day when my handicap will afford me the same respect accorded to a guy in a wheelchair. And if the respect comes with a preferred parking space, I won’t turn it down.”
― John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

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#26

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: forgiveness, inspirational, life, resilience, strength

892 likes

#27

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity

3899 likes

#28

“You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.”
― Anne Lamott, Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

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#29

“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”
― Adrienne Rich

168 likes

#30

“The best gift you are ever going to give someone— the permission to feel safe in their own skin. To feel worthy. To feel like they are enough.”
― Hannah Brencher

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