We honor the courage to begin again—quietly, bravely, with a heart open to possibility. As Maya Lin reflects: “I begin by imagining an artwork verbally… I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.”🌀

“Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.” ~ Edward Said

“The only joy in the world is to begin.” ~ Cesare Pavese

“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one’s talent, and one’s inner happiness.” ~ George Sand

“In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.” ~ Henri Matisse

“A hard beginning maketh a good ending.” ~ John Heywood

“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose—not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.” ~ Anne Sullivan

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” ~ Louis L’Amour

“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.” ~ Lewis Carroll

“Everything ends. But there are always new beginnings.” ~ Ralph Bellamy, When the Smoke Hits the Fan

“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.” ~ Peter Robert Fleming

“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen