"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

Beginning, Problem, Simplicity, Greatness, Complexity

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"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"The first stage of any development is infancy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The past is but the past of a beginning."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Everything started as nothing."

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"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."

Wisdom

"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."

Inspirational

"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

Time

"LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love."

Philosophy

"The Way to do is to be."

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"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."

Authenticity

"Too much thinking causes confusion and anxietybetter to stick with the simplicity of Tao."

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"Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved."

Success

"Attain complete emptiness,Hold fast to stillness.Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens.Mind opening leads to compassion,Compassion to nobility,Nobility to heavenliness,Heavenliness to TAO. TAO endures. Your body dies.There is no danger."

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"As for the best leaders the people do not notice their existence. The next best the people honour and praise. The next the people fear and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done the people say 'we did it ourselves!'"

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