The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out...

Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he’d look in on the Sailor’s Grave, his...

All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm...

But the crowds are surging around them and her backpack is heavy on her shoulders and the boy’s eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness , like the very last thing he wants is...

Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through...

We can’t even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending.

Here is a story that’s stranger than strange. Before we begin you may want to arrange:a blanket, a cushion, a comfortable seat,and maybe some cocoa and something to eat.I’ll warn you, of course, before we...

What is it that you want from me?

May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Passion resurrect you.May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all...

Good seasons start with good beginnings.

A true spiritual teacher will never guide you through the door, only to the door.

A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first...

Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always

I’m off to make war, so that you may have love.

Introspective souls are often tormented by their passionate visions. This is because visionaries see what shall be and wake up to what is. However, if you couldn’t see a glimpse of the city lights while...

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

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

He flexed his fingers and fought the urge to put his hand on her stomach. It was a possessivegesture, and he felt a little bit possessive

Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.

a long time ago when cataclysms were commonas sneezes and land masses slidaround the globe looking for placesto settle down and become continents,someone introduced us at a party.

There’s never a beginning for eternity.

Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.

It’s possible to find order in chaos, and it’s equally possible to find chaos underlying apparent order. Order and chaos are slippery concepts. They’re like a set of twins who like to swap clothing from...

Well, everything comes to an end, sooner or later,” she said. “Everything begins and ends. Everything changes.

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods...

In the very center of your being, life begins in silence and in joy.

But now that so much is changing, isn’t it time for us to change? Couldn’t we try to gradually develop and slowly take upon ourselves, little by little, our part in the great task of...

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

They kiss.The kiss that will change everything. Elliot will never have been happier than with this girl, funny, down to earth and bohemian, who dreamed of remaking the world as she ate her pizza.And Ilena...

The future begins today.

Every end should be followed by great new beginning.

…you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle – what are you asking – do you want light without shadow? …

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

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

According to the Buddha’s teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to...

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.

When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver’s seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are...

It was Christmas Day and Danny the Car Wiper hit the street junksick and broke after seventy-two hours in the precinct jail. It was a clear bright day, but there was warmth in the sun....

I have found that it’s not so much how you start, but how you finish that counts.” -Declan

… the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began…

God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues...

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

I have an idea and a first line — and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of...

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.