Beginnings And Endings Quotes

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”
― Kahlil Gibrán, Sand and Foam

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, “I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Since when," he asked,
"Are the first line and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?”
― Seamus Heaney

“A moment’s beginning ends in a moment”
― Munia Khan

“First lines did not define last pages in real life the way they did in books.”
― Stephanie Butland, Lost For Words

“Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

“I reminded myself that a beginning and an ending are two different places, and, in real life, you might be able to make your own ending, whatever had gone before.”
― Stephanie Butland, Lost For Words

“The last time always seems sad, but it isn't really. The end of one thing is only the beginning of another.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, These Happy Golden Years

“Yes, I love thinking about beginnings. I don’t like endings, though I suppose I’m like most people in that. An ending can be staring you right in the face without you knowing it.”
― Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

“The sun's descent marks not just the end of another day, but a symbolic passage—a reminder that life, like the sun, moves in cycles, each ending giving birth to a new beginning.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Days

“Life begins like a dream, becomes a little real, and ends like a dream.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“I believe we each have the opportunity to undergo thousands of little deaths and rebirths everyday. Each time we do, we free up space to live more fully in tune with who we really are, and to go where we are being called to go.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Spirit In Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2

“I’ve always heard every ending is also a beginning. We just don’t know it at the time. I’d like to believe that’s true.”
― Emily Prentiss

“As my fingers began to dance across the keys, each stroke felt like a heartbeat, echoing in the otherwise silent room. “The Last Snowfall” in bold font stared back at me. It seemed fitting, a tribute to the endings and beginnings that had shaped my life”
― Justine Castellon, The Last Snowfall

“Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can’t have just the one.”
― Suzette Haden Elgin, Native Tongue

“When we open our eyes to the little miraculous events all around us, life becomes a story of many little resurrections, one after the next.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Spirit In Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2

“Beginnings commence the sure end.”
― David Benedict Zumbo

“We often delay and sometimes even abandon the commencement of things entirely, primary because of the foreseeable end we have in mind.”
― David Benedict Zumbo

“We are all wicked. More than mortal flesh and blood, our very souls harbor evil. It knows no beginning or ending.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil

“Each end is always a beginning, because nothing ever ends totally, nothing can ever end. Everything continues, only forms change.”
― Osho, The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty

“Death by his hand but living by my own”
― Christina Casino

“For many vague, ill-formed reasons, I wanted to ask: Can something that never truly properly began be said to have ended? If I had wondered it out loud, I like to imagine that she would have said: No, that’s the beauty of it, something that never properly began, never ends.”
― Luis Joaquin M. Katigbak, Dear Distance

“The beginning may be your ending.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The price of the beginning is its end.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“You can start over as many times as you want.”
― Sara Ellie MacKenzie

“You started the story. Once you start a story, you have to make an end for it. That’s the rule.”
― Dean Koontz

“When we stop clinging to beginnings and endings, we discover in the middle the eternal presence of our divine being.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“It never matters how we begin. Only that we do. The only thing that matters is that we have the courage to embark on the journey ahead, to the places our hearts call us to go. Even if it means wounding another to be true to ourselves. The most painful of endings can be the most beautiful of beginnings. Sometimes heartbreak is actually a homecoming. Sometimes we have to ask what we would want for the people we love to discover what we also deserve. Sometimes we have to follow our hearts, wherever they lead, regardless of the cost.”
― Sarah May, She Journeys: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Homecoming