Quotes about starting-over

Everything good or bad in my life had started and ended within the limits of that town. It was over now, though, and a new chapter was beginning. Nothing would ever be the same as it had been before. I just hoped this chapter wouldn't be the final one in the book.

With each day that our huge ship was on the ocean, my sense of being further and further away from my loved ones, my home, and my environment grew stronger.

Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.

A Sunrise is God's way of saying, "Let's start again.

On angel's wings, love flew in.

Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets." Begin again.

Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again.

I don’t need those memories, Kai. We can make new ones. We… can start over. Just like we’ve met only yesterday.

Don't bore the universe.

If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.

And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.

The worst outcome of not trying is never getting to fail.

It’s amazing, really, how in one instant a wall can be torn down, or climbed over. Misconceptions can be shattered, illusions dashed, dreams irrevocably ruined. Given the right frame of mind, within a heartbeat, people can begin the business of starting over.

You move forward because you have to. Life doesn't stand still. It makes you move on until you want to move on, you know? It'll run you over if you don't move.

You’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life.

It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

Desperate times call for slutty measures.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

The effects of Fate come together like stew simmering with provisions from the universe. Which ingredients we’ve used make the end result easy to swallow or bitterly distasteful. So choose wisely for, when our lot in life is done, only those young enough or strong enough can toss their destiny aside and start over.

Sometimes life requires more of you than you have to give & demands you plunge into the reinvention of yourself if you truly wanna live.

If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been.

If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won't heal.

... forgiveness is a four letter word: Love.

At the end of the day, your life is just a story. If you don't like the direction it's going, change it. Rewrite it. When you rewrite a sentence, you erase it and start over until you get it right. Yes, it's a little more complicated with a life, but the principle is the same. And remember, don't let anyone ever tell you that your revisions are not the truth.

You go to bed different... tossing and turning is the norm... you wake to a sunny day but clouds follow you wherever you go. You wonder if you are strong enough to climb out of the depression you are living in and your prayers to God seem empty because you are sooo very tired of telling him the same thing over and over again..... if we are really being real... there may even be moments after impact you forget how to pray... maybe you don't even want to.

In my dreams, I entered a world where success was based on ethics and proper dealings, not bribes and scams. My vision of sucess including marrying Sophia, having joyful children, unassuming friends, and warmhearted neighbors. I aspired for an environment where I would be valued for my good character, not the strength of my aggression. I wanted to leave West Beirut, the four square miles of a lesser world.

Sometimes you’re left with only 1 choice: Take what’s yours and run for you life.

Life is not for the faint hearted

There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.