Quotes About Beginnings

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

But if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends are often equally bloody. We're familiar with political love that ends in tyranny, where a ruler's firm conviction that he has the true interests of his nation at heart ends up lending him the confidence to murder without qualms (and 'for their own good') all who disagree with him. Romantic lovers are similarly inclined to vent their frustration on dissenters and heretics.

But too often we dread being stuck. Especially our students and young people. We believe that if we are stuck we have failed. On the contrary, we should welcome getting stuck. We should embrace getting stuck. That's when discovery begins.

Zaman elini sizden daha çabuk tuttu, sizinse art?k her ÅŸeye yeniden baÅŸlama hakk?n?z yok.

Having no name to call on was having no past; having no past pointed to the fissure between the past and the present. That fissure is represented in the Door of No Return: that place where our ancestors departed one world for another; the Old World for the New. The place where all names were forgotten and all beginnings recast.

Dear God of new beginnings-here I am again .

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

You have an advantage in life when you start where others talk first.

There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.

Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!

Firsts were important

Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

It's New Year's Eve, after all. The night for new beginnings.

Firsts are special.

Las cosas están terminando, pero también apenas empiezan.

En la universidad, cuando las personas nos pregunten cómo nos conocimos, ¿Cómo les responderemos? La historia es: Crecimos juntos. Pero esa era más la historia con Josh. ¿Novios de preparatoria? Esa era la historia de Gen y Peter. Así que la nuestra ¿Cuál era? Supongo que diré que todo comenzó con una carta de amor.

At college, when people ask us how we met, how will we answer them? The shorty story is, we grew up together. But that's more Josh's and my story. High school sweethearts? That's Peter and Gen's story. So what's ours, then? I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter.

At college, when people ask us how we met, how will we answer them? The short story is, we grew up together. But that's more Josh's and my story. High school sweethearts? That's Peter and Gen's story. So what's ours, then? I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter.

I wake up happy because it's the first day of school. I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

Even though, I know, they barely know each other, and their story is over before it even truly begins, and the real part would have been in the everyday, in the choosing to be with each other despite all the hardships.

Firsts were important. But I was pretty sure lasts were even more important

I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.