Quotes About Beginning

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.

The story begins like so much else,' she says slowly, 'With hope. Hope and dreams and daring...

It's while it's being lived that life is immortal, while it's still alive. Immortality is not a matter of more or less time, its not really a question of immortality but of something else that remains unknown. It's as untrue to say it's without beginning or end as to say it begins and ends with the life of the spirit, since it partakes both of the spirit and of the pursuit of the void.

And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine.

Allí donde un sastre remendaría su tela, donde un calculista hábil corregiría sus errores, donde el artista retocaría su obra maestra todavía imperfecta, la naturaleza prefiere volver a empezar desde la arcilla, desde el caos, y ese derroche es lo que llamamos el orden de las cosas.

Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the first word written on paper, I give the following advice: Say your essay into a tape recorder and then write it down.

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.

The return to love is hardly the end of life's adventure.  It's the real beginning.  A course in miracle says we think we have many different problems but we really only have one:  denying love is the only problem and embracing it is the only answer.

Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.

Curiosity is the beginning and end of secrets.

I'll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit.

Death is not extinguishing the light. It is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning.

The greatest blizzards start with the finest snow.

But each time he received an invitation from the Harvard Club to join…he postponed his application for the time when he could do little but rest in the kind of comfortable chair that is to the end of life what a cradle is to the beginning.

You're crazy, Ludovico announced. Alessandro held his finger in the air. Ah! he said, but at least I'm able to tell you my last name, and at least, when they take me out to the stake my dreams may be just beginning, whereas yours, by your own definition, must and will come to a dark end. You fool yourself. Your illusions will fall away even before the end. They won't do you any good. You'll see.

And where is home? Is it where we begin or where we end up? Is it where we long to be or where life puts us to make good use of our gifts?

Of course, there will always be times that we need to find our very precise way. But more often than not, our image of a destination is only a starting point that we cling to needlessly. When we can free up our sense of needing to arrive in a certain place, we lessen the weight of being lost. And once beneath arriving and beneath our fear of failing to arrive, the real journey begins.

Live slow enough and there is only the beginning of time.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

It is the beginning of a work that the writer throws away.

From the very beginning, and throughout the whole of our affair, I had the privilege of knowing what we all find out in the end: the man we love is a complete stranger.

Life to most of us is just a jumble of sensations, like a very bad film with no plot, no real beginning and end.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.