Top 100 Quotes About Life Begins

#1. Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth.

Brandi L. Bates

#2. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.

Marianne Williamson

#3. There are things to be learned, there are things to be felt and occasionally the two overlap; and that's where the trouble begins.

Lara Williams

#4. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.

Paul Clitheroe

#5. Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

Evan Sayet

#6. As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

Emil Cioran

#7. Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side ... . Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. - RUMI

Tim Farrington

#8. Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#9. When the personal soul life is burnt to ashes, a woman loses the vital treasure and begins to get dry boned as Death. In her unconscious, the desire for the red shoes, a wild joy, not only continues, it swells and floods, and eventually staggers to its feet and takes over, ferocious and famished.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#10. A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Survival in Egypt begins with a yes to God's call on your life.

Max Lucado

#12. The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

Rob Bell

#13. Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

Sam Levenson

#14. Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.

Fritjof Capra

#15. The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#16. Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

Jonathan Sacks

#17. Again begins the ridiculous, terrible waiting, in which we do not know which object to move, which gesture to repeat - what to do in order to make what we are waiting for happen.

Andre Breton

#18. The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Barney Frank

#19. Halloween, the one night when we embrace the darkness from which all of America is descended. October is the gateway to the wonderful, mystical finale of the American year. A place where life ends and the celebration of life briefly begins.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#20. For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?

Simon Critchley

#21. A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

William Ralph Inge

#22. The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech ... As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere ... When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#23. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#24. But the sun rises again when the night is past, and, as it begins a new life with renewed strenght and vigour, it became the type of the new life which the Egyptian hoped to live in the world beyond the grave.

E.A. Wallis Budge

#25. The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.

Aaron Eckhart

#26. Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

Arthur Keith

#27. True life begins with a dream to dazzle, a purpose to live for, and a plan to realize it.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

Maria Callas

#30. You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day.

Ravi Zacharias

#31. Are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

Amin Maalouf

#32. As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is then removed from the marketplace and the school, later from other domains of public life. The state will not toerlate any gods besides itself.

Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

#33. Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire!

Gaston Bachelard

#34. Sometimes life begins like a bad dream and ends up like a kid's fairytale. The kind our
grandmothers used to tell us about sitting next to a fireplace, with their white braids shining under
the fire's light. They knew that even in an era like ours, there is nothing wrong with dreaming..

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#35. Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

William Feather

#36. Each day begins a new journey of life, for if we awake, there is a reason.

Bethanie Armstrong

#37. Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude.

Stephen Richards

#38. At the end of your comfort zone is where adventure begins and life dances with trembling joy.

Debasish Mridha

#39. It seems odd that a story about a gift-the possibility of a new life in a new and prosperous country-begins with a thief, but in some ways this one does.

Kimball Taylor

#40. Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Fawn M. Brodie

#41. Life truly begins after you have put your house in order.

Marie Kondo

#42. As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

Henry Ward Beecher

#43. Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

Zainab Salbi

#44. Time slowly begins to move. Even as we begin to awaken to mundane daily life ... I don't want us to forget ... the sadness of living on the backs of unseen sacrifices.

Kaori Yuki

#45. For me, reading begins at home.

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#46. As we grow spiritually, God begins to wean us from things that we think we can't live without: things, comfort, the longing for life to 'work.' That's a childish instinct, to say, 'Life has to work the way I want it to work, and now'.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#47. Christ wants to give you hope for the future. He wants you to learn what it means to walk with Him every day. When you come to Christ, God gives you eternal life - which begins right now as you open your heart to Him.

Billy Graham

#48. Baptism is the critical priesthood ordinance which opens the door to eternal life for each one of us. It is the benchmark from which we count our many blessings because this is when our accountability to follow Jesus Christ and live his Gospel begins.

Elaine L. Jack

#49. Success, meaningful success, begins when we take ownership and actively take responsibility for our part in the shortcomings of our life.

Eric Thomas

#50. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

Randy Thornhorn

#51. No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

Colin Powell

#52. Your life is a book;
it begins the day you are born,
the chapters pile up as you grow,
and the book ends as you die.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#53. Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#54. Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.

Brandon Bays

#55. The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey
Begins.

Shahid Kapoor

#56. Life begins at eighty.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#57. Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

Samuel Johnson

#58. But today, something begins to shift. I see that there might be some way I can take the raw material of my life and transform it into something that has order and structure. I can make sense of what, until now, has been senseless.

Dani Shapiro

#59. As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.

Janny Wurts

#60. The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

Marco Rubio

#61. ceasing to live the life of prayer the life of the spirit begins to fail, then those worldly things which are intended to be useful become hurtful and destructive.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#62. Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

Fulton J. Sheen

#63. I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the local newspaper and said 'look I am a democrat. (But) on this issue, because I see it as a human rights issue, if you wanted me to vote to promote that I wouldn't be able to do that.

Stockwell Day

#64. To age, General Epanchin was in the very prime of life; that is, about fifty-five years of age, - the flowering time of existence, when real enjoyment of life begins. His

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#65. They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

Poppy Z. Brite

#66. The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but life begins again at the end of the page, and one realises that one has knew nothing whatsoever.

Italo Calvino

#67. Life begins where fear ends.

Osho

#68. All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

Steve Coogan

#69. A cherry pie is ... ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.

Nick Harkaway

#70. Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

John Berger

#71. Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.

Sharon Gannon

#72. The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Seneca The Younger

#73. Whether necessary or not, they occur. When he begins fighting for his dreams, man has no experience, and makes many mistakes. But the secret in life is to fall seven times, and rise up eight times.

Paulo Coelho

#74. The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.

Vy Higginsen

#75. Quality of life actually begins at home - it's in your street, around your community.

Charles Kennedy

#76. If we want to see real change in our world, it begins with us all on an individual basis.

Dionna L. Hayden

#77. Real life, however, begins when I die to the false god that is me.

John Ortberg

#78. And the game begins anew.

Neil Gaiman

#79. Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

Gerry Mulligan

#80. The journey to the center of your soul doesn't start in your heart. It begins in your brain, and taking it makes you among the bravest of the brave for it's a place only the rare dare venture.

Toni Sorenson

#81. Having children changes everything; it changes your entire perspective about life since from the moment they arrive your new world begins and ends with them, your concern for their welfare is paramount over everything else and your life is scheduled around their needs.

Tess Daly

#82. Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations

Ralph Charell

#83. The river is one of my favorite metaphors, the symbol of the great flow of Life Itself. The river begins at Source, and returns to Source, unerringly. This happens every single time, without exception. We are no different.

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#84. Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

Fred Thompson

#85. As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

Susan Sontag

#86. Every human being begins and ends the same way, but how much they love the humanity distinguish him from others.

Debasish Mridha

#87. We begin to ask questions, such as: "What is the purpose of life? What is my true nature? What is the source and origin of this entire creation?" When questions of this kind arise in a person's mind, his or her quest for knowledge begins.

Tejomayananda

#88. One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

W.B.Yeats

#89. The Christian life begins with a firm no to the lifestyle of the devil. We need to remember this. We cannot remain Christians if we do not keep saying no to temptation as we go through life. And - mark you - one cannot say no to the devil unless one has first spoken a big, powerful yes to Jesus.

Anthony M. Coniaris

#90. There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

Martha Ostenso

#91. He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#92. An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.

Steve Maraboli

#93. I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.

Joe Biden

#94. Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

Alain De Botton

#95. Life begins with you competing in the race marked out for you

Marcelle Hinkson

#96. In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.

F. LaGard Smith

#97. In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.

Daisaku Ikeda

#98. The true test of a man, the beginning of his redemption, actually starts when he can no longer rely on what he's used all his life. The real journey begins when the false self fails.

John Eldredge

#99. As you shift and change your own experience, the experience of the whole human race begins to shift and change as well. So this is important work you are doing, this business of changing your life.

Neale Donald Walsch

#100. The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.

Mary Jo Bang

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