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Beginnings

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.--Lao-Tzu
All glory comes from daring to begin.--Eugene F. Ware
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.--Albert Camus
Almost everything comes from nothing.--Henry F. Amiel
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been...--Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910)
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.--Meister Eckhart
The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression more readily taken.--Plato (The Republic)
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.--John Galsworthy
Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.--Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.--Amy Tan
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.--Charlotte Bronte
The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult.--Marquise du Deffand
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.--Publilius Syrus
Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.--Olga Korbut
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.--James Russell Lowell
The end of a thing,
is never the end,
something is always being born like
a year of a baby.--Lucille Clifton ("December" Everett Anderson's Year)
Every day is a fresh beginning;
Listen my soul, to the glad refrain,
And in spite of old sorrow… and possible pain,
Take heart with the day and begin again.--Susan Coolidge
Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.--Marsha Petrie Sue (The CEO of You)
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.--Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz & Guldenstern Are Dead)
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.--Dan Custer
Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.--Seneca
The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream.--Marilyn Harris
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.--T. S. Eliot ("Little Gidding")
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.--Henry S. Hoskins
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.--John Heywood
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.--Horace
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.--Harry Emerson Fosdick
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.--Annie Dillard
I'm in a very enviable position, being able to work like this forty-five years later. It's always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, they're going to carry me off a stage.--Angela Lansbury
In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
--Octavia Butler
Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?--L. M. Montgomery
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.--Rainer Maria Rilke
It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round.--Colette
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.--Lao-Tsu, (The Way of Lao-Tsu)
Know ye not, each thing we prize does come from small beginnings rise?--Mary Ann Lamb
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.--Chinese proverb
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.--Neil Gaiman (from his blog, Dec. 31. 2010)
The metamorphosis that transforms the lowly worm into a beautiful butterfly reminds us of the loving miracle producing Creator always at work before us, around us and in us. To witness this marvel is to experience our own resurrection, new life, and beginning. --J. Lloyd Ewart (Inspirational Images)
A new baby is like the beginning of all things wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.--Eda LeShan (The Conspiracy Against Childhood)
No good ending can be expected in the absence of the right beginning. It is too late.--I Ching
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings.
Not all things are blest, but the
seeds of all things are blest.
The blessing is in the seed.--Murial Rukeyser ("Elegy in Joy" The Green Wave)
Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin.--Bil Keane
Reform, like charity, must begin at home.--Thomas Carlyle
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.--Dave Weinbaum
The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can.--Mike Dooley
Seems like I've been here before, can't remember when
I get this funny feeling, we'll be together again;
No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends;
No clearcut beginnings; so far, no dead ends.--Tom Chapin ("Circles")
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.--Demosthenes
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.--Florence Nightingale
Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.--Natalie Goldberg
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.--St. Francis of Assisi
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.--Martin Luther King Jr.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.--Sir Francis Drake
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.--Louis L'Amour
Things are always at their best in their beginning.--Blaise Pascal
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.--Winston Churchill
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, to one's affections, and one's inner happiness.--George Sand
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.--Robyn Davidson
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.--Hal Borland
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.--Edith Lovejoy Pierce
What the caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly.--Lao Tzu
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.--Goethe
When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are.--Edgar Cayce
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.--James Matthew Barrie (Peter Pan)
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.--Ivy Baker Priest (Parade, 1958)
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.--Joe Sabah
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.--Jonathan Carroll (Outside the Dog Museum)
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.--Nido Qubein