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It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is... Ayn Rand
Laurence Stern quote: "I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to..."
I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second. Laurence Stern
David Viscott quote: "If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to..."
If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. David Viscott
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. ... Marcel Proust
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by..."
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Benjamin Franklin
I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99 Lance Armstrong
From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room. I am vividly aware of my own life that escaped the winter on the boat. How many such lives I have lived. Then I only made a dollar and a half a day and now I sometimes make more than that in a few minutes. How wonderful to be able to write words. ... Again I begin the endless game of reconstructing my own life, jerking it out of the shell that dies, striving to breathe into... Sherwood Anderson
Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched. Lloyd Alexander
Frank Herbert quote: "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that..."
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. Frank Herbert
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. Herman Melville
[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer. Wallace Stegner
You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility. Philip Roth
When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder Arthur Conan Doyle
John Burroughs quote: "You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you..."
You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else. John Burroughs
Since ever the world was spinning. And till the world shall end. You've your man in the beginning. Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish. And neither nor borrow nor lend. Is what all of the girls are wanting. And none of the gods can send L. M. Montgomery

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