~ You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'Never try'. - Homer Simpson
~ For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. - Steve Jobs [Commencement Address to Stanford students]
~ Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. - African Proverb
~ Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. - Warren Buffett
~ "Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." - Lewis Carroll [Alice in Wonderland]
~ Once I started seeing through the eyes of my heart, instead of a socially conditioned lens, things started to transform dramatically. - Jonathan Mead
~ It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts
going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces. - Bridgette Jones' Diary
~ Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. - Shari R. Barr
~ It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get. - Elbert Hubbard
***** QUOTES ABOUT THE PAST *****
~ Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey
~ Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which at least others can learn from. - Al Franken
~ Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it. - Marianne Williamson
~ I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. - Lewis Carroll
~ No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. - Brendan Francis
~ Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. - Betty Smith [A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]
~ For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. - T.S. Eliot
~ Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. - Billie Holiday
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