#beginnings

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#beginnings #chamber #listened #meant #meant to be

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#beginnings #endings #going #life #middle

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being. ↗

— David Maraniss

#being #characteristics #characters #could #develop

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March) ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#beginnings #end #fresh-start #new-leaf #start-over

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#death #poetry #death

When you forget yesterday and embrace the new vision of what you are to become through the eyes of your best friend, you have found a new sister standing by the open door that was once closed in your heart. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#friendship #girlfriends #new-family #family

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies. Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night. The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year, when the days wind down into nothing, and get ready to march out again. When you hear the bell, you feel a tug at your heart. It is your immortal inspiration. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#beginnings #bell #end #endings #fresh-start

We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#been #beginning #beginnings #even #fighting

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. ↗

— Hal Borland

#calls #deals #fact #faith #lies