34 Quotes About Endings-and-beginnings

My scents for change are (and there's a lot of them, because there's a lot going on for me at the moment!):Pour Homme by YamamotoOn the Road by Timothy HanSantal Blanc by Serge LutensOud Wood by Tom FordDear Polly by VilhelmLa Flâneuse by Lucien LechênePM by the Great Eastern Fragrance CompanyJe t'aime Jane by Bella FreudNo. 9 Benjoin by PradaShalimar by GuerlainOriginal by Eight & Bob

No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.

Sometimes when we think it's the end of the road Is when we learn to fly

You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart.

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!

There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?

I’ve begun to realize that behind every story there is a gap that nourishes wisdom with great strength. And people misunderstand it as the end.

God is the end. I look into the myriad multitudes of the stars that shine like radiant beams of florid hopefulness, pinholes into heaven itself, and see that as God is my origin and the meaning to each day and each moment, so God will be my ending. I do not need to describe it or explain it, and even if I did it cannot be so reduced. But I do believe it. It is my pulse. It is simply this: my life is an offering of praise to the wonderful God who made life possible.

Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: "Things that start in the rain end well.