Quotes About Beginning

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

If every day is first day of your life, maybe you are being perpetually infantile.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

I thought you brought me here on our first trip

it was in a way the world at the very beginning – the elements alone, and starlight.

The map? I will first make it.

Lord the Almighty God is saying to us: 'the world' is the time from the beginning of this universe to very day it ends.

Nothing is something. In fact, out of nothingness flows all somethings. (Goodbye Phone)

If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello. Paulo Coehlo

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. Once upon a time is how all the best children's stories begin, and prostitute is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.

We have 2 big problems here: 1] knowing when to start 2] knowing when to stop

Making a decision is only the beginning of things

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

It was Wang Lung's marriage day.

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

All that had been was now no more.

Each moment is an opportunity to make a fresh start.

When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure.

We could save ourselves a lot of time by taking this message very seriously right now. Begin the journey without hope of getting ground under your feet. Begin with hopelessness.

The point is that you begin where you are, you see what a child you are, and you don't criticize that. You begin to explore, with a lot of humor and generosity toward yourself, all the places where you cling, and every time you cling, you realize, "Ah!

It describes an experience of complete hopelessness, of completely giving up hope. This is an important point. This is the beginning of the beginning. Without giving up hope—that there's somewhere better to be, that there's someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

you begin where you are, you see what a child you are, and you don't criticize that.

Begin the journey without hope of getting ground under your feet. Begin with hopelessness.