Quoted in The Grove:
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
~Theodore Roosevelt
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
~Rumi
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
~Walt Disney
EndQuote:
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
~Liz Smith
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Exercise Prompt for 04/05: humor
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Posted from the Grove
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
~Dave Weinbaum
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Beginning: For a Richer Life:
Breaking & Entering the Shy Zone: Not beginning the conversation, but extending it – 3 Ways
https://forge.medium.com/3-ways-to-rescue-a-conversation-thats-going-nowhere-1e0d954ae371
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Video:
Covid no more! A mashup video (3:36) fun
https://vimeo.com/400584129
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Activities in the Time of COVID:
Turkish Water Marbling: From Craft to Hobby (5:20) soothing, mesmerizing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqclBOtOEx8
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From MentalFloss.com
9 Classic Board Games You Can Play Online
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/621061/classic-board-games-to-play-online
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50 Amazing Skills You Can Learn on YouTube
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/572087/learn-skills-on-youtube
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HuffPost’s extensive list of online courses
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/online-classes-you-can-take-at-home_l_5e7a7a29c5b6e051e8dce9f7?ncid
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8 Master Class Courses To Get You Out of Your Netflix Funk
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/621543/try-these-masterclass-courses
Scroll down the page for these additional activities:
11 Boredom-Busting Classes and Activities You Can Do at Home
11 Essential Spring Cleaning Products
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You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.
Jane Hirshfield
Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
~Carl Bard
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Music:
~Gary Valenciano: Where Do I Begin (4:28)
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~Joeboy: Beginning (2:40)
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~Colin Hay: Waiting For My Real Life to Begin (7:52)
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~Johnossi: Heavens (Then We Begin) (5:14)
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~Placebo: Begin The End (6:03)
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
~Louis L’Amour
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
~Seneca
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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
~C S Lewis
Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.
~Jim Rohn
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
~Kate Chopin
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
~Saint Francis of Assisi
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
~Goethe
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@Writers Platform
Exercise Prompt: begin
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~BarTalk:
Tanka (5-7-5-7-7)
start as a word seed
growing against gravity
begin as a phrase
watch the budding poem grow
penetrate doubt into depth
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begin the faking
needing dough for the raking
s’not love we’re making
kneading dough for the baking
take in the godforsaken
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snow melting yonder
begins the river from here
start the clock at birth
crash over rocks into pools
arrive purified at sea
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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~Mary Pickford
Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.
~Winston Churchill
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
~Henry Ford
Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.
~Hubert Humphrey
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Harvested from:
azquotes.com, ecosalon.com, everydaypower.com, finestquotes.com, success.com
Curated by: Wordgrove
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