Beginnings Quotes

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

~ Shannon L. Alder

May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Passion resurrect you.May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire.

~ D. Simone

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

~ L.m. Montgomery

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.

~ Walpola Rahula

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

~ Marty Rubin

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love.

~ Shannon L. Alder

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

~ Ann Voskamp

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

~ Horace

The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In the pursuit of dreams, we all have different beginnings. Your past is not negotiable. You must let go of the hope for a better past.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending.

~ C. Joybell C.

As long as we’re breathing, we have a chance to start over and build a stable future.

~ Kim Ha Campbell

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

~ Shannon L. Alder

He looked at me with serious eyes, but not the kind that made me wonder what I’d done wrong. The kind that made me wonder what I’d done right.

~ Denise Jaden

My fear of endings too often blocks my hope of beginnings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The secret of an abundant life is to expand it with more beginnings so that the universe can fill your world from many directions.

~ Debasish Mridha

Here is a story that’s stranger than strange. Before we begin you may want to arrange:a blanket, a cushion, a comfortable seat,and maybe some cocoa and something to eat.I’ll warn you, of course, before we commence, my story is eerie and full of suspense, brimming with danger and narrow escapes, and creatures of many remarkable shapes.Dragons and ogres and gorgons and more, and creatures you’ve not even heard of before. And faraway places? There’s plenty of those! (And menacing villains to tingle your toes.)So ready your mettle and steady your heart. It’s time for my story’s mysterious start...

~ Robert Paul Weston

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.

~ Shannon L. Alder

God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warriors for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

~ Criss Jami

It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are coping and not living. It is the false belief that there is a verse, quote, phrase or talk that will magically make you feel content, complete or not care. However, it doesn’t last longer than a few days, before your mind and heart goes back to what it wants. It is the moment you realize that you left without ever leaving. It is the moment you realize that fear, shame or guilt is the only thing standing in the way of the life God meant for you to live.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Introspective souls are often tormented by their passionate visions. This is because visionaries see what shall be and wake up to what is. However, if you couldn't see a glimpse of the city lights while stranded in the forest, how would you ever know to walk in that direction? Sometimes, your vision can't be put into action, until you gather the learning experiences, along your journey first.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You wish you could’ve learned to play piano. You wish you could’ve started drawing when you were young. You wish you could’ve figured out who you wanted to be before you graduated college. You wish you could’ve learned to love yourself sooner. Well you know what? You didn’t. And that’s just something you’re going to have to learn to deal with. But just because you didn’t do it sooner, doesn’t mean you can’t start now.

~ Daren Colbert

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.What would you like to have happen in your life this year? What would you like to do, to accomplish? What good would you like to attract into your life? What particular areas of growth would you like to have happen to you? What blocks, or character defects, would you like to have removed?What would you like to attain? Little things and big things? Where would you like to go? What would you like to have happen in friendship and love? What would you like to have happen in your family life?What problems would you like to see solved? What decisions would you like to make? What would you like to happen in your career?Write it down. Take a piece of paper, a few hours of your time, and write it all down - as an affirmation of you, your life, and your ability to choose. Then let it go. The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

~ Melody Beattie

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Exiting from any long-term relationship comes at great personal expense, which explains why so many people are understandably reluctant to endure the cost of severance. Beginnings and endings are always dramatic and occasionally traumatic. Youthful brio allows us to engage in transformation. As we age, we carefully weigh the spectacle of continuing enduring harrowing situations or seeking melodramatic renovation of our core being. Analysis of the respective cost benefit ratio, consideration of the known versus the unknown, can delay or permanently deter us from altering our environment, leading our persona to become more rigid as we mature. Transformations in life are disconcerting to people who resist change.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of endings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

~ Lois Lowry

Although I’ve been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be well advised to focus on the miracle of beginnings verses the pain of endings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You are the mark on my liquid heartwhere love begins with the beginning’s startYou are the desire of the ablaze fires the only truth from ten-thousand-liarsFrom the poem- A Letter to My Love

~ Munia Khan

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

~ Shannon L. Alder