„Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.“

— Confucius

Tags:

„To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin, this old man had perhaps first learned it thoroughly in old age.“
— Martin Buber
„What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up,And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets:May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.“
— Robert Browning
„May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.“
— Stephen King