Favorite Quotations
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Beginnings & Endings, 2
Mother Night
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge. ~ Ivan Pavlov I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end. ~ Deborah Norville If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time. ~ Chögyam Trungpa The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~ Sally Berger It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings. ~ Hannah Arendt The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. ~ H. G. Wells If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive. ~ Zig Ziglar It is much easier to begin than to end. ~ Plautus Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. ~ Rachel Carson The beginnings of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. ~ Kate Chopin
"In my beginning is my end." ~ T.S. Eliot