The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.Its clear tones resound in the...

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were ‘somebody’.

Starting a new way is never easy so…keep starting until the start sticks.

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh...

Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully...

It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are...

You have the power to shape your life the way you want it to be. Every though, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some...

If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.

The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.

I’d prefer to die in Texas when I’m old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that’s where I entered the world, so that’s how I’ll leave it. 

I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it.

After every storm, there is a rainbow. If you have eyes, you will find it. If you have wisdom, you will create it. If you have love for yourself and others, you won’t need it.

The difference between superlative pie and a wish for cake is crust. Understand that pie is a generous but self-centered substance. It likes attention, not affection. Do not hug your crust. Do not rub its...

Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage

You see the bird and you see its flight.You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don’t know its plight.

But what is great can only begin great.

It’s a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us...

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

There were never going to be any happy ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right. That is all right.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

An end is only a beginning in disguise.

Every night is Christmas Eve on old East Main,Sailors and their sweethearts all agree.Neon signs of red and greenShine upon the friendly scene,Welcoming you in from off the sea.Santa’s bag is filled with all your...

Imagination makes the worldand all the wonders in it.The seed of every dream unfurlsas you with love begin it!

Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well…. Love is the best and noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by...

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

A moment’s beginning ends in a moment

All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.

We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out...

Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he’d look in on the Sailor’s Grave, his...

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm...