191 quotes found
“The thing about finishing a story is that finishing is really only the beginning.”
“For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning.”
“The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?”
“You’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.”
“It’s been said of me that I know how to love well, if any person alive can possess such knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.It is all such a blessing—in the beginning, and the en...”
“Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?”
“The miracle that saves the world, the realm of human affairs, from its normal, ‘natural’ ruin is ultimately the fact of natality, in which the faculty of action is ontologically rooted. It is, in o...”
“...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.”
“Over the years, I’ve discovered that as the years go by, sometimes we are energized and enlighten and sometimes we are demoralized and disheartened to realize that in some situations our beginning ...”
“But instead of the end, I’m pretty sure I found myself at the start of something.”
“The first step my son which one makes in the world is the one on which depends the rest of our days.”