New Beginnings (An Encouraged Affair - Book 2)

No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Habit is what keeps you going. And guess what they have planned for you? Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan. You can't just accept the ones you like. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

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Chesterton "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Edison "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember, that's where you will find success.

Watson "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen. I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago. Liking what you do is happiness. Be excited about what you want. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.

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Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment. You seek problems because you need their gifts. Baruch "Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression, and respect.

That thought is the problem. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. Happiness never decreases by being shared. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, then there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom. Walk to the edge. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

There is nothing to forgive. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. It is appreciating what you have. Happiness is wanting what you get. Your creativity and happiness brings money. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. It turns what we have into enough and more.

It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. It's not what you're gonna get in the end--it's not the final curtain--it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing.

Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success? Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.

Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them. Petit Senn "To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. Barr "View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't?

What were the happy moments? What were the sad?

What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do? The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.

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The great teacher inspires. Stevenson II "Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things. Do your thing, and don't care if they like it. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.

Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. Eisenhower "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. Kennedy "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Drucker "You are not here merely to make a living.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. It is the only thing. Maxwell "The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

It is about one life influencing another. Maxwell "You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. But do not care to convince him.

Men will believe what they see. Lee "The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care.

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Either case is a failure of leadership. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust. Solomon "In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men, the least government is the best government. It is very easy to say yes. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. Try to please everybody. She was 23 when she quit her job in marketing and told her family she was heading to Paris to make it as a writer.

She had been working on her first novel ever since graduating in fashion journalism but found that nine-to-five office life in London did not allow enough time to write. The bold move paid off. She rented an Airbnb in Paris for six months and wrote The Lido , a heart-warming story of community, loneliness, youth and ageing, with an odd but endearing female friendship at its centre — between year-old local journalist Kate and year-old widow Rosemary, who come together through their love of outdoor swimming.

Twenty-four hours after submitting her book to publishers, he phoned her to tell her that she had landed a two-book deal for a six-figure sum.

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The book has since sold in 24 territories and film rights have also been bought. The Lido was inspired by many things: Brixton, the area in south London she got to know so well in her student years that was then in the process of being gentrified; the loneliness of her early 20s and her love of outdoor swimming — she and her older sister are known as the Swimming Sisters on Instagram. But perhaps the biggest factor was the sense of community she found as a teenager when she moved to the city from the countryside.

It was this urban neighbourly spirit that inspired the central symbol of the lido. There was a different kind of community in Brixton. You have to nudge open the doors to it. The pool here has been sold to developers who are turning it into luxury flats; Rosemary and Kate plan a local campaign to wrest it back for the community who have shared memories of it that stretch back to the second world war.

Was the book also inspired by the European referendum, I ask. In difficult times, people want to hold on to the things that are important.

For the women, the lido means so much more than a pool. Page also deals with age and generational change in refreshing ways. Rosemary defies the stereotype of the elderly woman: Page says she often saw this kind of formidable woman while swimming. Like them, Rosemary is a young soul. She hopes that an honest portrayal of youthful loneliness and anxiety will resonate with other twentysomethings. You have this perception of what your 20s should be like, but in reality a lot of us feel lost and struggle to find a place in the world.

In The Lido , I was trying to say that we have a lot in common — the young with the old. Lisa Halliday, 41, grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Milan. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review and she received a Whiting award for fiction. Lisa Halliday tracks her debut novel back to her early 20s, when she landed a job with the Wylie literary agency in New York and found herself in the perfect position to listen in to the wisdom of writers. In the opening scene of Asymmetry , the twentysomething publishing assistant is doing just that when she is approached by an elderly man eating an ice-cream.

He is Ezra, a Pulitzer prize-winning writer with a zipper-like scar from his stomach to his sternum — and so begins a May-December love affair that is also a masterclass on the craft of the novel. In one early scene, Ezra advises Alice to remember what Chekhov said: The answers to this and many other questions are artfully concealed in a work that defies some key conventions of its chosen form yet remains triumphantly a novel. Born in Medfield, a small town 45 minutes outside Boston, to a mechanic father and a mother who started out as a seamstress and went on to found a pest control business, Halliday was a bookish child, who would sit on the steps of the local library waiting for it to open.

She graduated from a local school to Harvard, an achievement she attributes to the good fortune of growing up in a town with an outstanding record in public education. She stayed with the Wylie agency for eight years, working in both their US and UK offices, and punctiliously recording in her journal the wit and wisdom of the authors she encountered along the way, before leaving to embark on own writing career. But only now that she is 41, and living in Milan with the distraction of a small baby, is she is publishing her first novel. What took her so long?

Partly, she admits, it was due to the demands of finding the money to pay the rent once the day job had gone. But subsequent freelance work — editing, proofreading, ghostwriting and translating — gave her a second apprenticeship and taught her about structure and unselfconscious storytelling. It was such useful feedback that she has dropped it into the novel. Gradually, her work began to find its mark, and she started to publish short stories and author interviews in the Paris Review. When her English husband landed a job as rights director with an Italian publisher, and the couple moved to Milan, the pieces of Asymmetry began to fall into place.

At first she tried to force their stories to intersect, but gradually she understood that to do so was a mark of immaturity as a writer. Big history dances on tiptoe in the background, as do tricky questions about cultural appropriation and the freedom of writers to go anywhere their imagination leads them. An hour later she emails a quote: She is, at 39, a poised presence, all in black, with an alert smile.

I tell her I read her harrowing debut novel, White Chrysanthemum , set in South Korea and Mongolia, in one sitting — horrified and rapt. Bracht writes about two sisters: Hana, abducted by a Japanese soldier, becomes a comfort woman; Emi remains behind. She writes unflinchingly about what they endured: Bracht studied anthropology and psychology at Texas university.

Her father was an American soldier stationed there. Most of the women are now in their 60s, 70s, 80s. Yet while at high school, she told her mother about her ambition to write. Korean stories are sad. The mood of the nation is loss and sorrow.

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Mick Kitson was born in Wales and lives in Fife, Scotland. He has been one half of 80s pop duo the Senators, a journalist and an English teacher. A year and a half ago, Mick Kitson was an English teacher in his mids working at an independent school in Fife, Scotland. He often felt frustrated by the novels he taught: So I had this idea that I was going to write a novel that I would want to read.

Kitson was with him during his final weeks. I remember sitting there with him and thinking, I need to do some of the things I said I was always going to do. It struck me very strongly. What Kitson did next was return to Scotland and embark on his long-deferred novel. He spent three or four months carefully planning it, and the next two in a frenzy of writing. But these days, it can be anything: I did it 24 hours a day.

The novel Kitson produced is so daring and original that it would be deeply impressive had it taken a decade to write. Sal is the story of two half-sisters from a deprived town near Glasgow — year-old Sal and year-old Peppa — who flee their abusive home life by taking off, on their own, to the Scottish Highlands. They make an unlikely pair of survivalists — neither has ever even visited the countryside — but Sal, who masterminds the expedition, is a highly intelligent autodidact who has prepped for life in the wild by poring over instructional videos on YouTube.