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To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship.


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CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS “Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Politics: Poly.
MANY Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.
DIANNA HARDY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We wanted to make the tour as intimate as possible. This package is too big for a lot of theaters, b...
TREY MANY Endings and beginnings look just the same.
PATRICIA ROBIN WOODRUFF A person who never made a mistake, never made anything." ~Rosamund Pilcher, Endings and Beginnings
ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the sme...
LARRY WATSON Stephen's heart was big to bursting with the violence of his grief, yet even as he looked distracted...
PATRICK O'BRIAN America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the sa...
JESSE JACKSON America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the sam...
JESSE JACKSON The way to know life is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA It’s hard to say where a story begins and ends. You have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere. Some...
THOMAS LLOYD QUALLS We all have our own Journey which be ending for everyone the same.
JAN JANSEN The world began in ending, and it will end in beginning.
JACQUELINE CAREY That night after my parents had kissed me good night and closed my door, I got out of bed and took f...
SHEILA MOON Endings and beginnings are merely paired facets of an imagined stone curtain, behind which a plethor...
GED THOMPSON LIVERPOOL POET There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. ...
HILARY MANTEL I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.
MARILYN MONROE All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
MITCH ALBOM As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same ti...
DAVID HARE This is my sixth year now. I've never seen this many all-stars in the locker room at the same time.
ADRIAN WILSON We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that...
LAKSHMI PRATURY But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
MITCH ALBOM Both should share the same concept of what a relationship means and the same energy to believe in a ...
IRINA SHAYK Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... With so many people talking to GOD at the same time , make your voice heard. Just say "Thank you".
GEORGE REX Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: "Things that start...
JANE WILSON-HOWARTH Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.
ROBIN HOBB A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN The positive fire in you can glow your home and at the same time if it turns negative, it may destro...
NEHA KOTHARI The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO All these events happened many, many years ago, and he is not the same person today. He has renounce...
MARC FRIEDMAN Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age exti...
ROBERT T. BAKKER I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think th...
JODI PICOULT Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. I've...
FRED ROGERS This is not the end, of course. Every story we read, every film we watch, continues in our imaginati...
HUGH HOWEY How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same ...
PAUL PROVENZA Everyone is born equal; we all come into the world helpless and innocent. We all breathe the same ai...
ANNE FRANK People say we have too many brands. We have too many brands if we try to do the same things with all...
MARK LANEVE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying w...
RAY BRADBURY Love takes many forms. It is an ifinite emotion that can never fully be contained. You can not make ...
ASHLEY YOUNG The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. M...
GEORGE COMBE Our customers want the freedom to choose, but at the same time we know that rates are a key factor f...
BERIT KJOELL The same sermon can be preached to the same audience, many times over, in the same manner, and the H...
PR. PADDICK VAN ZYL I'm not scared. I think it is a once-and-for-all measure to discourage people from illegal downloadi...
ANDY LAU The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and ...
JAMES PLATH If you do so much things at the same time, how many of those things really mean much?
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they sp...
RUSSELL HOBAN After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they ...
RUSSELL HOBAN Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; an...
DANA ROHRABACHER Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
JEANNE MOREAU I look at it as smart growth. Smart marketing. Is there a case to be made that we're too many places...
KYLE PETTY The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHY There were so many people out tonight for this concert. The atmosphere was completely chill, and it ...
ADAM ANDERSON I think music can be many things to many people. I think it should exist on many levels. I think tha...
DAVE HOLLAND It is a bit of a flukish thing that we've had that many players injured at the same time,
LARRY SCOTT We want to establish a relationship with women that acknowledges the many aspects of their lives, no...
LISA CAPUTO In many ways, this is no different than the old days when you sat in your room late at night with a ...
BILL BAXTER Consent in many ways is the same as notification.
ELIZABETH GRAHAM But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means som...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same...
PETER KREEFT He tried fighting back, but there were too many, ... A witness said there were six or seven people a...
CARLOS CRUZ We ... took a look at the fact that many of the counselors have been in their same roles for a very ...
GENE HARRIS It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just ...
MITCH ALBOM Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the sa...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VINCENT VAN GOGH If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA It's cool, but sometimes I'm confused because I don't know how many minutes I'm going to play. The t...
FENDI ONOBUN The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.
JEAN RENO It may take many voices for people to hear the same message.
RASHEED OGUNLARU In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus o...
LAURA MILLER He believes this will bring some fiscal accountability to the federal government. It does that witho...
ERIK IVERSON We are all sensible that the king and Tisaphernes have caused as many of us as they could to be appr...
XENOPHON Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
T.S. ELIOT It's not how many things you can do at the same time, it's one great thing that you can do that'll c...
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way afte...
JOHN ANDREW Plus, the prominence of such an event would be naturally decreased if there were too many cultural c...
CHRISTA PRETS I think there are too many (US) recommendations. At the same time it's very simple because they (the...
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