A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
Violence begins with the fork.
The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.
The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.
Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.
Libraries are where it all begins.
An artist's career always begins tomorrow
Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance. . . . Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope.
Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present. . . . Nobody chooses dysfunction, conflict, pain. Nobody chooses insanity. They happen because there is not enough presence in you to dissolve the past, not enough light to dispel the darkness. You are not fully here. You have not quite woken up yet. In the meantime, the conditioned mind is running your life.
'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
History begins in novel and ends in essay.
It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
One always goes on as one begins.
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.