Xochi Romero

25 Quotes That Will Inspire You To Take The Plunge And Start Over

Because the first step is always the scariest one to take.
Heidi Priebe
November 23, 2016
“When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.”
— Wolfgang Riebe, No Title
Tagged: Dreams, Change, Challenges, Failure, Starting Over
“There are far, far better things out there than any we leave behind.”
— C.S. Lewis, Letters To An American Lady
Tagged: Change, Optimism, The future, Moving Forward, Embracing Change, Hope
“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, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Tagged: Life, Change, Losing, Gaining, Pain, Heartache, Starting Over, ENFP
“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, "Little Gidding," Four Quartets
Tagged: Ending, Beginning, Beginning And The End, Starting Over, Poetry
“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. 
Begin again the story of your life.”
— Jane Hirshfield, The Lives Of The Heart
Tagged: Life, Starting Over, Change, Personal Growth, New Beginning, Failure, Growth
“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 be as they once were: those two years, which up until then had seemed an endless inferno, were now beginning to show me their true meaning.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Tagged: Endings, Beginnings, Starting Over, Reflection, Destiny
“Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”
— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
Tagged: Pain, Heartache, Sadness, Starting Over, Moving On
“This is how bad stories end. But it's also how the best stories begin.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Endings, Beginnings, Pain, Starting Over, Letting Go, Moving On, Moving Forward
“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Moving On, strength, Starting Over, Trauma, Grief
“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, The Zahir
Tagged: Change, Starting Over, Becoming You
“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, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
Tagged: Uncertainty, Change, Challenge, 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 line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.”
— Ellen Goodman, Ellen Goodman's last column: looking backward, looking forward
Tagged: 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, Why Is God Laughing
Tagged: Pain, Change, Making Change, Choices, Decisions, Moving Forward, Self-Direction, Personal Growth
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Relationships, break-ups, Endings, Beginnings
“It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Great interviews of the 20th century: Marilyn Monroe interviewed by Richard Meryman
Tagged: inspiration, Inspirational, Starting Over, empowerment, reinvention
“You can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your Mother Season 8: Something Old
Tagged: The Past, Moving On, Change, Moving Forward, Letting Go
“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, The Blind Assassin: A Novel
Tagged: Beginnings, Change, Endings
“When you're lost, you're also free.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Being Lost, Freedom, lost, Change, Quarter-Life Crisis, Starting Over
“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, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Life, Restructuring, Starting Over, Loss, Growth, Moving Forward
“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, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: 20s, Your 20s, Change, Growth, Development, Mistakes, Making Mistakes, Starting Over, quarter life crisis
“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, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Life, Living, Life Story, Moving On, Moving Forward, Letting Go
“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, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Tagged: 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, Last Seen Leaving
Tagged: Change, Starting Over, Taking Chances
“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, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
Tagged: Starting Over, Change, Identity
“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, The River of Winged Dreams
Tagged: Dreams, Death, Starting Over, Renewal, Creativity, Moving Forward