Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.

- Shigenori Kameoka

The end is the beginning of all things,
Suppressed and hidden,
Awaiting to be released through the rhythm
Of pain and pleasure.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

- Saint Francis de Sales

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

- Madame de Stael

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The beginning is always today.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose -- not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

- Anne Sullivan

Whatever begins, also ends.

- Seneca

You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles.

- Robert Frost

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

- Kalidasa

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

- Isaiah Berlin

Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

- George Eliot

Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals.

- Wallace Stevens

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

- Lazurus Long

Life on the planet is born of woman.

- Adrienne Rich



The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

- Ivy Baker Priest