Beginning - Quotes
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.
There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you`re beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what is right. It`s a serious thing to grow up, isn`t it [...]?
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Everything is in the brain. From the beginning. The body is simply a kind of service unit that the brain is forced to be burdened with in order to keep itself alive.
Cause this fight was rigged from the beginning. All day, every day, we fight against the current. Sometimes we lose.
Because if everything`s finite, if everything has a definite beginning, middle, and end, then why even get started in the first place? What`s the point when everything just leads to The End?
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
You know how there`s time-based art? Movies, music, plays, it`s all time-based art. There`s a beginning, and a middle and an end. You have to see it from the beginning to the end. You`re restrained to that timeline... That way of experiencing it. But then there`s paintings. No beginning, no middle, no end. You see what you want to see when you want to see it. No restrictions, it`s just there.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith; and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.