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"Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending."
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"...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited."

"It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you."

"Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death."

"Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies."

"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."

"Although I've been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning."

"You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with."

"How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime."

"You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future."

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."
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"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

"Sadly as some old mediaeval knightGazed at the arms he could no longer wield,The sword two-handed and the shining shieldSuspended in the hall, and full in sight,While secret longings for the lost delightOf tourney or adventure in the fieldCame over him, and tears but half concealedTrembled and fell upon his beard of white,So I behold these books upon their shelf,My ornaments and arms of other days;Not wholly useless, though no longer used,For they remind me of my other self,Younger and stronger, and the pleasant waysIn which I walked, now clouded and confused."

"A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain."

"O, never from the memory of my heartYour dear, paternal image shall depart,Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprised,Taught me how mortals are immortalized;How grateful am I for that patient careAll my life long my language shall declare."

"Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are."
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