Quotes About Beginning

Begin whatever you're doing by remembering that you are here and you have been given a gift.

Far too often, we don't start because we can't get our minds around the entire thing. We don't take the first step because we can't figure out the seventeenth step.

Robert A. Heinlein

The beginning of wisdom is a firm grasp of the obvious.

But first he was going to take a drink, a big drink, because he needed one. And it didn't matter whether he drank or not, nothing mattered now; it was all over. All over, or just beginning.

Twelve years had passed, and now he'd come full circle. The whole business had started here, and here it must end. That was simple justice.

Eric Poole began with cats. Or, to be more exact, kittens.

To him, refugees were people at the end of the chain of events that had begun with decisions made by those at the top and the beginning of the chain.

I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had no money.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

No, this is no beginning. Then an end? End is a gloomy word.

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold. DANISH PROVERB

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

You are lucky. How so? To know where you came from. I guess I never gave it much thought.: Bah, of course not. But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

What was it about a season's first snowfall, Mariam wondered, that was so entrancing? Was it the chance to see something as yet unsoiled, untrodden? To catch the fleeting grace of a new season, a lovely beginning, before it was trampled and corrupted?

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle…Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

Bah, of course not. But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.

When obsessives are given their object of desire, what do they feel? It was hard to say, really. In a sense their lives were ending; yet something else, some other life, had finally, finally begun…. Filled with so many emotions at once, it was impossible not to be confused; it was an interference pattern, some feelings cancelled, others reinforced.

A blank red slate. Anything was possible, anything could happen

We must say, I have no past. I am beginning here and now

The only way to get to where you want to go is to take a step in that direction. And the best way to do that is to begin.