Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. (Ecclesiastes 7:8)
Begin Quotes
Some actions have an end, but no beginning. Some begin, but do not end. It all depends on where the observer is standing.
It is important to honor our beginnings, to remember that we matter and that we have a place in this world that no one else has.
It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
‘We must do something’ is the unanimous refrain. ‘You begin’ is the deadening refrain.
Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
Well begun is half done.
In my beginning is my end.
