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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.

To become something else, you have to stop being what you are now; to start doing things a new way, you have to end the way you are doing them now; and to develop a new attitude or outlook, you have to let go of the old one you have now.

Make your time of transition a time of renewal and transformation. Come out of it stronger and better adapted to your world than you were when you went in.

His true adult education, to discover who he is and what life is all about. What is the secret of the “I” with which he has been on such intimate terms all these years, yet which remains a stranger? What lurks behind the world’s façade, animating it, ordering it — to what end?

“Every complex problem has a solution which is simple, direct, plausible — and wrong.” Change is the epitome of the complex problem.