Quotes About Beginning

El asombro es la sensación de un filósofo y la filosofía empieza con el asombro

The beginning is the most important part of the work

Wonder (???????) is the only beginning of philosophy, and he was a good genealogist who made Iris the daughter of Thaumas

This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them.

I keep staring at the bag in Mrs. Parks's hand: yellows, greens, blues, whites, pastel colors so soft they look as if they have faded in the sea. The washed colors of the sea and sleep. Pajama colors. The colors of baby clothes. In my nose is the smell of my brothers' heads after they are born. Maybe this is why people making journeys buy saltwater taffy. It gives you the lovely dreamy sense that you can start all over again from the beginning.

She was alone in the stillness of the universe a little while before all the confusion began. It was if she could hear it ticking, check in on the life at the very center of it, its wellspring that everyone somehow knows, before it was covered by noise.

This may only be Act One!

I'm not ready. But I begin.

And as life began in the sea, so each of us begins his identical life in a miniature ocean within his mother's womb.

Nick stands up and offers his hand to me. I have no idea what he wants, but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on my feet then presses against me for a slow dance and it's like we're in a dream where he's Christopher Plummer and I'm Julie Andrews and we're dancing on the marble floor of an Austrian terrace garden. Somehow my head presses Nick's t-shirt and in this moment I am forgetting about time and Tal because maybe my life isn't over. Maybe it's only beginning.

I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present

I knew she was leaving. I knew we were never going to date long-distance. I knew that we wouldn't have been able to be like this back when we were dating, so there was no use in regretting what hasn't happened. I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.

I am forgetting about time and Tal because maybe my life isn't over. Maybe it's only beginning.

But now, here she was, very wishful to pray, while not knowing how to explain her dilemma: 'I'm terribly unhappy, dear, unprobable God—' would not be a very propitious beginning.

this is only the beginning. Many die, many kill their bodies and souls, but they cannot kill the justice of God, even they cannot kill the eternal spirit. From their very degradation that spirit will rise up to demand of the world compassion and justice

Perhaps this was a day of firsts. The day one dies, of course, is a first in any life.

Grandpa Teddy often said, "In the beginning was the word. Before all else, the word. So we speak as if words matter, because they do.

when one day ends, the next begins, for in this infinite universe there is no final conclusion to anything, definitely not to hope.

because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. —H. G. Wells

Katie switches it on again and reverses a little beyond the beginning

There is a rule I live by: People begin as they mean to continue.

Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.

En mis primeros recuerdos aparece el fuego.