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4334 Begin quotes by 2606 unique authors
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However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our…
— Paulo Coelho
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It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?
— Neal Shusterman
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I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to…
— Rachel Joyce
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And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current…
— Mohsin Hamid
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Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from…
— Nhat Hanh
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Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music…
— Paul Auster
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It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility…
— Haruki Murakami
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...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward…
— Kristin Cashore
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It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four o’clock in the…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is…
— C.S. Lewis
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I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I’d…
— Robin Sloan
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If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.
— Eric Greitens
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You must begin with God.
— Rick Warren
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You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I…
— Mary Oliver
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(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness.…
— Erin Morgenstern
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He gives me a look that says, “Dude, if I knew that do you think I’d have enlisted your puny help?” I snicker. “Something funny…
— Karen Marie Moning
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We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the…
— Cornelia Funke
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what…
— Carson McCullers
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I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then,…
— Bryan Lee O'Malley
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Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.
— Laini Taylor
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Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot share with him,…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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