Quotes about Beginning
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
- Marcus Aurelius
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- St. Augustine
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
- Origen
Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.
- St. Augustine
The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
- Marianne Williamson
The return to love is hardly the end of life's adventure. It's the real beginning. A course in miracle says we think we have many different problems but we really only have one: denying love is the only problem and embracing it is the only answer.
- Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is a full time job, and sometimes very difficult. Few of us always succeed, yet making the effort is our most noble calling. It is the world's only real chance to begin again. A radical forgiveness is a complete letting go of the past, in any personal relationship, as well as in any collective drama.
- Marianne Williamson
The crucifixion of the Goddess - the invalidation of feminine beliefs and values - lies at the heart of all our painful dramas. But crucifixion is merely a prelude to resurrection, and we are now living at the beginning stages of the resurrection of the Goddess.
- Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is a full time job, and sometimes very difficult. Few of us always succeed, yet making the effort is our most noble calling. It is the world's only real chance to begin again.
- Marianne Williamson
The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.
- Aristotle
God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
- John Henry Newman