Beginning
(page 3)
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
A good beginning makes a good end.
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.