“II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a though about publication -- and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.”
Anne Tyler
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
Bob Moawad
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
W. M. Lewis
“When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.”
William Barclay
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
Henry Ford
“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta