Friday, 1 January 2016

January 1st: Beginnings

It's the beginning of a new year, so here are ten quotes about beginnings. Happy New Year.

  1. The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato
  2. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Seneca
  3. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw
  4. There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. Francis Drake
  5. Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann
  6. There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. Louis L'Amour
  7. Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. William Throsby Bridges
  8. In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. Thomas Carlyle
  9. Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always. Dante Alighieri
  10. In the beginning, there was nothing, and then God said, “Let there be light.” And there was. There was still nothing, but at least you could see it. Ellen DeGeneres

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