Beginnings Quotes

“It's him, it always has been and it always will be ~ the only thing left now is timing.”
― Nikki Rowe

“All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“There were never going to be any happy ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right.
That is all right.”
― S.J. Watson

“We had been texting for exactly thirteen minutes, asking random questions, trying to figure out if we knew any of the same people, or if we liked the same kind of music--the usual interview process you go through when you're trying to get the job as boyfriend.”
― Jason Reynolds, The Boy in the Black Suit

“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”
― Andrew James Pritchard

“If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust beginnings, it is simply this: know that with which you deal.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House

“Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.”
― Dianna Hardy, Summer's End

“Exiting from any long-term relationship comes at great personal expense, which explains why so many people are understandably reluctant to endure the cost of severance. Beginnings and endings are always dramatic and occasionally traumatic. Youthful brio allows us to engage in transformation. As we age, we carefully weigh the spectacle of continuing enduring harrowing situations or seeking melodramatic renovation of our core being. Analysis of the respective cost benefit ratio, consideration of the known versus the unknown, can delay or permanently deter us from altering our environment, leading our persona to become more rigid as we mature. Transformations in life are disconcerting to people who resist change.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass into oblivion without unflinchingly declaring that my life carries a value worth the expenditure of His. And if I dare look upon the cross, I am utterly perplexed but wholly enraptured by the immensity of such a love as this.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man's mind are beginnings in God's plan.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“Sometimes ends are in fact beginnings; beginnings ends.”
― Anna Godbersen, Splendor

“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

“And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.”
― Nikki Rowe

“I look down, and I'm surprised to find myself standing in the middle of a small stone circle. In the center, directly between my feet, is a coppery-bronze octagon with a star. Words are engraved in the stone around it: POINT ZÉRO DES ROUTES DE FRANCE.

"Mademoiselle Oliphant. It translates to 'Point zero of the roads of France.' In other words, it's the point from which all other distances in France are measured." St. Clair clears his throat. "It's the beginning of everything."

I look back up. He's smiling.

"Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“The best is yet to be.”
― Robert Browning

“Each new breath and moment is a gift. We can choose to start with a clean slate in the here and now.”
― Kaleb Kilton

“There's so much to write. Where should I start?
I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:
'You should start where you are”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“It’s hard to say where a story begins and ends. You have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere. Somewhere between perception and reality. Between what is spoken and what is heard. Between what is written and what is edited out. I know this, you can’t have an ending without a beginning. Even if they are really just random pieces of the middle that tend to stand out. Staccato notes on the page. Points on a circle.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

“Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“They've walked for nearly a block when he stops short and looks at her. They are in the middle of the sidewalk, face to face, between a tobacco shop and a trash can. Everything they've never said flows into the narrow space between them. Isabel feels the passing of time acutely, like a flood coming and only so much time to gather up the most important things.”
― Alexis Smith, Glaciers

“What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Just about everything in life is common sense, anything outside that is the beginning of extraordinary." Ray Mancini”
― Ray Mancini, Zen, Meditation & the Art of Shooting: Performance Edge - Sports Edition

“You are the mark on my liquid heart
where love begins with the beginning’s start
You are the desire of the ablaze fires
the only truth from ten-thousand-liars

From the poem- A Letter to My Love”
― Munia Khan, Beyond The Vernal Mind

“I look down, and I'm surprised to find myself standing in the middle of a small stone circle. In the center, directly between my feet, is a coppery-bronze octagon with a star. Words are engraved in the stone around it: POINT ZÉRO DES ROUTES DE FRANCE.

'Mademoiselle Oliphant. It translates to "Point zero of the roads of France." In other words, it's the point from which all other distances in France are measured.' St. Clair clears his throat. 'It's the beginning of everything.'

I look back up. He's smiling.

'Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is always a beginning. And beginnings can be the start of anything.”
― Michelle Goncalves