“Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.”
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Ninth Revelation, Chapter 22
Context: Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending. For which love He said full sweetly these words: If I might suffer more, I would suffer more.
“Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Infinity and End,” p. 35
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
“Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Eternity and Existence,” p. 31
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
“A trail without beginning has no end.”
Marion Zimmer Bradley book The Door Through Space
Source: The Door Through Space (1961), Chapter 5.
“I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.”
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
The History of Freedom in Christianity (1877)
Context: I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task. In the ages of which I have spoken, the history of freedom was the history of the thing that was not. But since the Declaration of Independence, or, to speak more justly, since the Spaniards, deprived of their king, made a new government for themselves, the only known forms of Liberty, Republics and Constitutional Monarchy, have made their way over the world.
“There is a hierarchy amongst living beings, that is eternal [without beginning or end].”
Madhvacharya (1199–1278) Hindu philosopher who founded Dvaita Vedanta school
Beginner’s Guide to Sri MadhvAchArya’s Life and Philosophy
“Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean
Context: Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing. On this account, the superior man regards the attainment of sincerity as the most excellent thing.
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2001, Freedom and Fear Are at War (September 2001)
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Source: The Magnificent Defeat
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Mathnavi translated by William Chittick pp. 122-123 as quoted in Classical Islam and Naqshbandi Sufi Tradition by Muhammad Hisham Kabbani p. 153
