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One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me… — Bil Keane
Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works. — John Updike
One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to… — Richard Carlson
I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to… — John Ortberg
...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing. — Terry Brooks
The six rules of maybe 1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it. 2. If you known where you… — Deb Caletti
One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip. — Erma Bombeck
Another story must begin! — Victor Hugo
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it… — Jane Austen
When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek… — Anais Nin
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in… — Joan Didion
It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what… — Melina Marchetta
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance. — Alexandre Dumas
Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers.… — Adam Smith
He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him,… — Karen Marie Moning
This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing… — Jonathan Franzen
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. Thatâ€™s because we typically begin at the wrong starting pointâ€”ourselves. We… — Rick Warren
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent… — George Eliot
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk.… — Haruki Murakami

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