Beginning Quotes
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"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."
"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."
"If you want to know my story, you have to go back to the beginning. Not the beginning-beginning, but about nine months later. You see, I was born as a poor farm boy. Believe it or not, my parents were so poor that they didn’t even own a farm. Nope. Instead, they had to live in a small apartment in the city."
"Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."
"Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day."
"Death isn't the end, it's the beginning."
"As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires."
"In the beginning..when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all, there was a kind of radiance that illuminates universe. That radiance is the light of knowledge and goodness. That radiance will persistently and consistently shines brightly even after all the stars and moons in this vast universe died out."
"Winners were not born winners; they learnt and practiced how to win and they have it! Everyone who gives a great testimony about his/her life begins with a beginning that was "inadequate"until something happened... an a breakthrough became evident!"
"We can live forever even with an impactful shorter-life."
"Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again."
"I have always been considered a bit of an outsider, and a general failure at everything I put my hand towards. In fact, you might even go so far as to say that I’m a lesser being of great insignificance! I state this because, when writing a story, you should always start the first line off with at least one basic truth.-First lines from the novel Sukiyaki"
"At the beginning was The Word. Today I see That in great quotes."
"A moment’s beginning ends in a moment"
"The beginning is always NOW."
"I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me nowis a beginning or an end."
"In the beginning was love, and love was with God, and love was God."
"The end is never the end. It's always the the beginning of something."
"To properly do penance one must express contrition for one’s sins and perform acts to repair the damage caused by those transgressions. It is only when those acts are complete that the slate can truly be wiped clean and amnesty gives way to a new beginning."
"In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it."
"woman--another word for beginning.another word for revolution.another word for healing.another word for being.another word for me."
"woman-another word for beginning.another word for revolution.another word for healing.another word for being.another word for me."
"I believe in the simple things--the classic beginning of once upon a time, that good conquers evil in the end, fantasy and fate. My life is that of wondrous enchantment, a place of endless possibilities and dreams, where inspiration is found in the oddest of places. I aspire to inspire, and someday I will change the world,"
"Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning."
"Winners were not born winners; they learnt and practiced how to win and they have it! Everyone who gives a great testimony about his/her life begins with a beginning that was "inadequate" until something happened... an a breakthrough became evident!"
"Take your current success as the beginning of your journey and you will keep breaking your own records."
"God has from the beginning, placed in us all the necessary gifts, abilities and talents to have success"
"I walk, talk and act like a king even though I know there's no royalty in my bloodline"
"This is why introductions are important--because in the beginning, despite the fact that we already believe we know what it means, there's a chance that over time the definition will change from one thing to another."
"Motivation may be what starts you off, but it's habit that keeps you going back for more."
Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
"And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the summer with which it begins, and finally, instead of following the hero onto the cliffs of suicide, joyfully turns back to that summer, content to stay there forever."
"He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round."
"It is the beginning of the end."
"The first step my son which one makes in the world is the one on which depends the rest of our days."
"If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends."
"If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree"
"You’ve got a chance to start out all over again. A new place, new people, new sights. A clean slate. See, you can be anything you want with a fresh start."
"My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp."
"challenges _! no music, no dreams, no hopes,_but one has to live !"
"Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock."
"Sometimes the end is only a beginning"
"You have the face of a man who gently caresses field flowers and dandelions. And a smile that is like a dagger, cutting the sun in halves."
"He clenched onto her, the way a 3-year-old kid would clench to his doll whenever someone tried to take it away from him. The doll was getting tore a bit every time the kid held it tighter. In the end, when they stopped trying to take it away from him, he looked at it with all the love he had for it. The doll wasn't the same anymore. It had lost all its beauty it had in the beginning. And the kid just wished in silence that if only he could let it go in the beginning."
"Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings."
"To only see ‘death’ in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is halted by it. To see ‘life’ in death is to understand that death is a sprawling horizon to a new beginning that God created long before death ever thought to show up."
"In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same."
"The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth."
"Worry notif you are in darknessand the void sucks you in further.This is not the place we go to die.It’s where we are bornand our stories begin."
"An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be well advised to focus on the miracle of beginnings verses the pain of endings."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never come."
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