“Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Change, Starting Over, Becoming You
“It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again.”— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.comTagged: inspiration, Inspirational, Starting Over, empowerment, reinvention
“When you're lost, you're also free.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Being Lost, Freedom, lost, Change, Quarter-Life Crisis
“If your life is missing something you cannot place back into it, restructure. You will get nowhere dismantling the pieces with nothing to take their place.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Restructuring, Starting Over, Loss, Growth
“Your 20s are about undoing as much as they are anything else. Choosing new. Deciding otherwise. Shedding layers that have muddied your idea of who you think you are. This is the kind of scary magic you want.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: 20s, Your 20s, Change, Growth, Development
“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 i…”— Jennifer Elisabeth, amazon.comTagged: Intuition, Starting Over, fresh start, Trusting Your Intuition, Trusting Yourself
“All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.”— Kelly Braffet, amazon.comTagged: Change, Starting Over, Taking Chances
“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Moving On, strength, Starting Over, Trauma, Grief
“This is how bad stories end. But it's also how the best stories begin.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.caTagged: Endings, Beginnings, Pain, Starting Over, Letting Go
“Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Heartache, Sadness, Starting Over, Moving On
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. Slowly, I began to realize that I could not go back and force things to…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Endings, Beginnings, Starting Over, Reflection, Destiny
“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”— Jane Hirshfield, amazon.comTagged: Life, Starting Over, Change, Personal Growth, New Beginning
“What we call the beginning is often the end And to make and end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.comTagged: Ending, Beginning, Beginning And The End, Starting Over, Poetry
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.comTagged: Life, Change, Losing, Gaining, Pain
“When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.”— Wolfgang Riebe, goodreads.comTagged: Dreams, Change, Challenges, Failure, Starting Over
“Everyone has that moment I think, the moment when something so momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, n…”— Kathleen Glasgow, amazon.comTagged: Starting Over, Change, Identity
“Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Beginnings, Change, Endings
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, break-ups, Endings, Beginnings
“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 metaphys…”— Aberjhani, amazon.comTagged: Dreams, Death, Starting Over, Renewal, Creativity
“The little voice that's telling you the story of your life, has to let go of the old chapters to genuinely write new ones.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Living, Life Story, Moving On, Moving Forward
“There’s a trick to the ‘graceful exit.’ It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit l…”— Ellen Goodman, seattletimes.comTagged: Moving On, Moving Forward, Leaving, Saying Goodbye
“When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Change, Making Change, Choices, Decisions
“I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause. It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.”— Po Bronson, amazon.comTagged: Uncertainty, Change, Challenge, Moving Forward
“You can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.”— Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.comTagged: The Past, Moving On, Change, Moving Forward, Letting Go
“There are far, far better things out there than any we leave behind.”— C.S. Lewis, amazon.comTagged: Change, Optimism, The future, Moving Forward, Embracing Change