Quotes About Beginnings

The world may be ending, but all I could see was beginnings.

It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear never beginning to live.

1. Nature is pliable, obedient. And the logos that governs it has no reason to do evil. It knows no evil, does none, and causes harm to nothing. It dictates all beginnings and all endings.

Thou canst begin a new life! See but things afresh as thou usedst to see them; for in this consists the new life.

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a postscript, a chart of simultaneous events.

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with.

I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that.

Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

To nature lovers, the season of new beginnings is the spring, but to people who excel in school, it's the fall.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

Start Your Journey Before You See the End

I'm New- New? How blessed, he said. There's nothing in this whole wide world that is better than a new person!

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.

Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.

One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.