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

I’d prefer to die in Texas when I’m old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that’s where I entered the world, so that’s how I’ll leave it. 

I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it.

The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.

The difference between superlative pie and a wish for cake is crust. Understand that pie is a generous but self-centered substance. It likes attention, not affection. Do not hug your crust. Do not rub its...

After every storm, there is a rainbow. If you have eyes, you will find it. If you have wisdom, you will create it. If you have love for yourself and others, you won’t need it.

You see the bird and you see its flight.You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don’t know its plight.

But what is great can only begin great.

Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

There were never going to be any happy ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right. That is all right.

It’s a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us...

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

An end is only a beginning in disguise.

Every night is Christmas Eve on old East Main,Sailors and their sweethearts all agree.Neon signs of red and greenShine upon the friendly scene,Welcoming you in from off the sea.Santa’s bag is filled with all your...

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

Imagination makes the worldand all the wonders in it.The seed of every dream unfurlsas you with love begin it!

Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well…. Love is the best and noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by...

A moment’s beginning ends in a moment

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

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...