#beginning

Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#birth #commencement #dawn #day #inspiration

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed ↗

— Rick Warren

#change

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars. ↗

— David Bottoms

#breaking-free #breaking-the-rules #changes #life #new

As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#change #diamonds #dying-earth #end #fading-world

I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it -- it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean. ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#starting-a-book #writing #writing-advice #writing-fiction #writing-advice

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

#challenge #i #in the beginning #me #months

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#i #imagined #life #long #work

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#destroying #end #eternity #fear #love

It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end. ↗

— Aaron Stanford

#beginning #end #know #least #middle

In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#attracted #because #beginning #better #better chance