Quotes About Initiation

471. It is so difficult to find the beginning. Or, better: it is difficult to being at the beginning. And not to try to go further back.

471. It is so difficult to find the beginning. Or, better: it is difficult to begin and the beginning. And not try to go further back.

471. It is so difficult to find the beginning. Or, better: it is difficult to begin at the beginning. And not try to go further back.

It was not an end, it was a beginning.

Don't get hung up on trying to be perfect before you start or you may never begin.

It all starts with you, and that which never starts, also finishes with you.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

The first step is always the hardest

The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

The most important phase of a child's life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.

It is high time that I should pass from these brief and discursive notes about things in Flatland to the central event of this book, my initiation into the mysteries of Space. THAT is my subject; all that has gone before is merely preface.

Maybe I could rewrite the fairy tale of my life, transforming every blow to the head, and every cut to the cunt, and every crucified doll into some kind of an initiation.

The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and hid in the bush as the time of initiation approached.

Gentlemen, start your egos.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

There's a first time for everything when I'm involved.

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.