March has just begun and you know spring is just around the corner. Spring can be the most energizing time of the year. If you are looking for new beginnings, this is your time!
Getting on a new path can be scary, too! To leave the well-known pathway and embark and a new adventure can make you feel uncertain even fearful.
We gathered the best resources to support you on a new path – inspiring quotes, books worth reading, and even poems. Let’s start!
Inspiring Quotes
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting.” – Buddha
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” -Saint Francis of Assisi
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
Books
Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
This her highly acclaimed guide to self-empowerment, Dr. Susan Jeffers inspires readers with dynamic techniques and profound concepts that will help you grab hold of your fears and move forward with your life. Are you already familiar with this classic? This companion book might be the right choice for you: “Feel the Fear…and Beyond: Mastering the Techniques for Doing It Anyway” also by Dr. Jeffers.
Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret by Rhonda Britten
“Fearless Living” gives you practical and doable steps to make the changes in your life you deeply desire. You will learn to appreciate and love yourself and the world around you. The book features inspiring true stories and practical “Fearbuster” exercises. Fearless Living exposes the roots of fear and teaches easy tools to move beyond them. You will be on your way towards success, happiness, and peace of mind.
Poems
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
It Is Your Turn Now by Rumi
It is your turn now,
You waited, you were patient.
The time has come,
For us to polish you.
We will transform your inner pearl
Into a house of fire.
You’re a gold mine.
Did you know that,
Hidden in the dirt of the earth?
It is your turn now,
To be placed in fire.
Let us cremate your impurities.
Spring is the month when noone has to define beauty, you just realize it! All paths seem beautiful, where is the confusion and pride of picking one over another? Every path has beginning and ending? why can’t be infinite both way, both what is beneath us and what is beyond us…both are not measurable! Confusion is not in what to pick, but who is really picking and who is really being picked? Is Gold being refereed as your true self and body as impurities? Don’t cremate impurities…cremate the creator of impurities and which is ownership…you will be confused who are you and who is him/her/it? if you just cremate impurities, you will be left with carbon black, another impurity!
I love these! I am bookmarking this to come back when I let fear creep in. I’m excited to take the first step of faith and boldness!
Fear is something everybody feels but no one talks about, except for the brave. Great article! Thank you!
The Road Not Taken is a loved poem! I am glad to read it again.
A dear wise friend once told me when I had a business opportunity that was large (for my age) and scary… she said “when you are given a true opportunity, you should always say ‘Yes'”. It has been good advice! Even though the business move was not for me in the end, I would never think, what if- That is a peaceful feeling.
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour
This quote hit really close to home with me. With my past being what it is, some may have an idea and some may be reading this comment saying to themselves “I am not really sure what this person is referring to…”. Whether you somewhat know me or have never met me, look at YOUR past, look at what YOU have come through and where YOU are now. Every person who has faced some difficult times in their lives can relate to this in some way. There was a time, when I was in a very dark place, when I thought the life I was living was how I was going to be living the rest of my life and I did not know there was any way to change it. I did not realize that in order to change my life I had to start with me. Then, when I realized that, I had asked myself, “who am I” and I could not answer it. That was the beginning of a very beautiful journey. The journey that I am currently living and still figuring out each day. There will not come a day where I say that my journey is completed, until the day comes where I don’t see the next. That is the day that my journey will end. Until then, I will continue to learn about myself, my purpose, continuously figuring out more of who I am. But it was not until I thought that I had reached the part of my life where that was how I was going to live forever and thought that there was nothing left to look forward to; that is when I found so much more beauty, life, happiness, and overall peace in each day – even the not so great days are still beautiful because there is always something to take from it, to learn from it.
What a wonderful quote! Thanks for sharing Samantha!