According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the live-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

All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.

— Shannon L. Alder

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.

— Justin Cronin

A long time ago when cataclysms were Commons sneezes and land masses slid around the globe looking for places to settle down and become continents, someone introduced us at a party.

— Billy Collins

Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

A moment’s beginning ends in a moment

— Munia Khan

And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have received.

— Nikki Rowe

And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm of a number two pencil and a mind open to the possibilities.

— Toni Sorenson

And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.

— Arianna Huffington