Quotes About Beginning

I am assured at any rateMan's practically inexterminate.Someday I must go into that.There's always been an AraratWhere someone someone else begatTo start the world all over at.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk's too big, the desk's too small, there's too much noise, there's too much quiet, it's too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.

Those who cannot begin do not finish.

Attunement of one's feet to the bald and hairy earth. Consider the blackbird, perched on a reed, a north wind blowing, the water torn. Now is the poem's beginning, even at this late hour in the span of everywhere. Consider the lovers, with not enough arms for all their need to embrace. Or, if you prefer, consider the madness of wars, the impossible weight of oceans. And even if we had been there, would we have laughed or cried?

nothing looks very bad in the morning, when you're a boy.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.

I get annoyed when a self-indulgent writer just shows off what he knows but doesn't really tell a story. To me storytelling is first a craft. Then if you're lucky, it becomes an art form. But first, it's got to be a craft.. You've got to have a beginning, middle and end. And I have sort of applied the theatrical principles to writing. Throw the story in the air and see what's going to happen.

If God is the sort of reality Christians believe God to be, that is to say, if God is the beginning and end of all things, then logically and grammatically God does not fit into any of these categories. But since such categories are the only tools available in our language and grammar for talking about anything at all, God included, asserting God's reality requires purposefully breaking the rules in a way that indirectly displays what cannot be directly described.

Tao Te Ching: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

will give you a chance to start your life over.

If Francis has really made up his soul [...], what lies ahead of him? Hasn't he achieved the great end of life? —[...] Having got his soul under his eye, so to speak, Francis must now begin to understand it and be worthy of it [...]. Making up a soul isn't an end; it's the new beginning in the middle of life.

The beginning and the end- the origin and the consummation- are always in the same place, always the same thing, truthfully speaking. This spiritual maxim is one of the foundational wisdoms of the entire Western world- the oneness of beginning and end means that everything is a circle, held together, complete as it is. The firmly bound nature of the circle of reality is nothing more or less than the adamantine, circular bond of Fate itself, holding everything together as it must be.

I don't know where to begin." "Begin in the middle and work outwards," said Hope. "Don't be stuffy.

Dream big. Start small. Begin now

It is the first step to lifelong enlightenment.

to rise with the sun and to start the day off well.

Every big dream starts small.

The thousand-mile journey begins by taking that first step.

the best time to plant a tree was forty years ago. The second best time is today.

And I need to say that beginning your day intelligently, healthily and peacefully isn't only about optimizing your public and private success. It's also about protecting it.

It doesn't matter where you start. Only that you begin.

Every dream starts small. But you need to start. Today.

You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.