Starting Over Quotes

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.

Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Katharine Graham

The key to a better life isn't always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes.

Richelle E. Goodrich

They say, timing is everything. But then they say, there is never a perfect time for anything.

Anthony Liccione

Don't bore the universe.

Anas Khan (Tech Savvy)

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

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

Shannon L. Alder

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

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

Dominic Riccitello

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.

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

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.

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

All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.

Shannon L. Alder

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.

Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

Aberjhani

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

Aberjhani

If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.

Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues" say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over.

You can't live in your mind and expect those dreams to become real, without the work. Reality requires actions that might feel scary, but that is what is required if you want to find true love. Don't expect it to come and rescue you. You have to rescue yourself.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Jennifer Elisabeth

Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things.

John Mark Green

Life is not for the faint hearted

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.

Sam Wazan

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.

G.K. Chesterton

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.

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

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?

Shannon L. Alder

Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.

Jennifer Elisabeth

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.

Aberjhani

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Aberjhani

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

Aberjhani

We are worth fighting for,” we both whispered. Giving one another permission, into each other madness.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

Shannon L. Alder

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

Aberjhani

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Aberjhani

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.