Echoes

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

While I breathe, I hope.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

The quality I look for most is optimism: especially optimism in the face of reverses and apparent defeat.

Everything changes; nothing perishes.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

…That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

Optimism is true moral courage.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

A man must shape himself to a new mark when the old one goes to ground.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, / And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, / And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.