Becoming Quote by Vincent de Paul

It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.

— Joan Didion

“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about…

— David Attenborough

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of…

— Hannah Arendt

From native simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

— Albert Schweitzer

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

— Albert Schweitzer

“It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young, afterwards we lose the sense of…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

— Philip James Bailey

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can…

— Eric Hoffer

We come to beginnings only at the end.

— William Throsby Bridges

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

— Albert Schweitzer

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

— Patrick Modiano

We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that,…

— Nikos Kazantzakis