Beginnings Quotes
147 quotes
"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
"There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake."
"Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always"
"May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Passion resurrect you.May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire."
"Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change."
"Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending."
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."
"When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you."
"After every storm, there is a rainbow. If you have eyes, you will find it. If you have wisdom, you will create it. If you have love for yourself and others, you won’t need it."
"Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back."
"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go."
"The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow."
"A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!"
"God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warrior’s for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know."
"From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story."
"Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love."
"According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply."
"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"
"Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin."
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
"The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase."
"Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past."
"A moment’s beginning ends in a moment"
"In the pursuit of dreams, we all have different beginnings. Your past is not negotiable. You must let go of the hope for a better past."
"As long as we’re breathing, we have a chance to start over and build a stable future."
"He looked at me with serious eyes, but not the kind that made me wonder what I’d done wrong. The kind that made me wonder what I’d done right."
"My fear of endings too often blocks my hope of beginnings."
"The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged."
"The secret of an abundant life is to expand it with more beginnings so that the universe can fill your world from many directions."
"And when the end comes, we shall see the end. We shall see and understand how we started better. We shall see those who started well and those who ended well. When the end comes, we shall surely see the end!"
"Since when," he asked,"Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?"
"When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'."
"Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?"
"Introspective souls are often tormented by their passionate visions. This is because visionaries see what shall be and wake up to what is. However, if you couldn't see a glimpse of the city lights while stranded in the forest, how would you ever know to walk in that direction? Sometimes, your vision can't be put into action, until you gather the learning experiences, along your journey first."
"You wish you could’ve learned to play piano. You wish you could’ve started drawing when you were young. You wish you could’ve figured out who you wanted to be before you graduated college. You wish you could’ve learned to love yourself sooner. Well you know what? You didn’t. And that’s just something you’re going to have to learn to deal with. But just because you didn’t do it sooner, doesn’t mean you can’t start now."
"A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick."
"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
"An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings."
"Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit."
"Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings."
"Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of endings."
"...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old."
"I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it."
"Trees are where Nature has simply begun"
"Although I’ve been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning."
"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
"You are the mark on my liquid heartwhere love begins with the beginning’s startYou are the desire of the ablaze fires the only truth from ten-thousand-liarsFrom the poem- A Letter to My Love"
"God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back."
"Imagination makes the worldand all the wonders in it.The seed of every dream unfurlsas you with love begin it!"
"You have the power to shape your life the way that you want it to be. Every thought, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer, but everything imagined begins with a dream."
"Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life."
Showing 50 of 147 quotes