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Quotes About Beginning

I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
~ Unknown
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
~ Lao Tzu
O lovitur? scurt? în fereastr?, ca ?i cum ceva ar fi izbit-o, urmat? de o ampl? c?dere abia sim?it?, de parc? o mîn? de fire de nisip s-ar fi pr?bu?it de la fereastra de deasupra, apoi mi?carea extinzîndu-se, regularizîndu-se, adoptînd un ritm, devenind fluid?, sonor?, muzical?, atotcuprinz?toare, universal?: începea s? plou?.
~ Marcel Proust
We trust in love as we trust in life, without thinking of the underlying emptiness, without too much believing in it. We go on loving because we are starving for affection. We want to enjoy its sustenance, and leave it at that. Thus we begin again not once but many times.
~ Marcel Proust
think I would be lying if I said that the painful and perpetual mistrust that Albertine was to inspire in me had already begun, let alone the particular, above all Gomorran, character which that mistrust was to assume.
~ Marcel Proust
By the time one wants to remember how one began to love a woman, one is already in love; during earlier reveries, one did not say to oneself, "this is the beginning of love, I must pay attention," and the feelings crept up on us almost unnoticed.
~ Marcel Proust
But, less disappointing than life is, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
~ Marcel Proust
It has been said that beauty is the promise of happiness. Reversing the idea, the prospect of pleasure can also be the beginning of beauty.
~ Marcel Proust
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
~ Marcus Aurelius
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
~ Marcus Garvey
To move to a new place -- that's the greatest excitement. For a while you believe you carry nothing with you -- all is canceled from before, or cauterized, and you begin again and nothing will go wrong this time.
~ Margaret Laurence
It starts with the father. But for me, it started with my mother. My mother and her secrets.
~ Unknown
I've always found," said Dr. Fisher, springing from his chair, "that all you had to do to start a thing was to—begin.
~ Unknown
Every life starts with the same beginning and ends with the same end. The rest is the story, even if you don't understand it, even if you aren't sure which parts are true and which parts are your brain trying to make sense out of smoke.
~ Unknown
Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica. To be intelligent, one must start young.
~ Unknown
Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.
~ Maria Shriver
say, every journey begins with a single step.
~ Unknown
Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)
~ Marianne Williamson
A key to success is to start before you are ready.
~ Marie Forleo
Change begins with the person who wants the change.
~ Unknown
Don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.
~ Marilu Henner
Begin a new life today without any fear! Let's go over it together.
~ Nazim Ambalath
—and I say you still haven't answered my question, Father Bleu.""Haven't I, dear lady? I thought I stated that death is merely the beginning
~ Unknown