You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
— C. S. Lewis
Strong Overly quotations
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be.
I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
I believe in and love the populist, nationalist, antiglobalist rebellion happening all over the West.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.
When people walk away from you, let them go.
Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up.
But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna).
She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful.
In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.
If we can realize that life is always happening for us, not to us… game over, all the pain and suffering disappears.