279 Quotes About Beginnings

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.

Release-For yearsthey told you tosit.Stay.Now they open the doorand tell you toget up.Leave.Where do you gowith no oneto show youthe way?

The worst day is always the first day. Changing a habit or instigating something new is toughest at the start. By means of repetition, however, these new habits develop. They are strengthened in the course of familiarity.

If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.

I had to start new, my ego told me that if past ever wanted me, I won't be calling it by that name.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one last visit to the washroom. Thus all great ventures have unspoken beginnings.

It is when an end descends that we either find immense joy in its departure, or we are weighed heavy with grief over the passing of it. But the unrelenting beauty of life is that every new beginning is ingeniously crafted to meet us in either place and flawlessly move us forward from both.

She liked him. She liked the feeling of liking him. She felt light and smiley and too full of excitement to think of anything else. 

All that had gone before was not a thousandth of what was yet to come; the story of this star had barely begun.