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Quotes about starting over
The form wants a marital status, and you stop at the box for longer than you expected. Or the boxes are unpacked and the flat still doesn't feel like yours. Or you're new in a job, with a smaller title, being trained by someone who was born after you left school.
Fresh starts get talked about as if they're all excitement. Most of them come with paperwork, and with some loss. People who have been through one mention slowing down to work out what they want, small steps that add up, and finding that what they learned earlier came with them.
Whether the divorce or the move was the right call is yours to say, and the lines take no position on it.
The moments
- The first night alone in a new place
- Updating names and closing joint accounts
- A new career and a smaller job title
- A form asking for your marital status
- Telling people the plan and waiting for the doubt
- Feeling too old to retrain
- A small win and nobody to tell
What people say helps
- Slowing down to think about what they want next
- Small steps that add up
- Finding that skills and experience carried over
- Leaning on friends and family
“New beginnings” and “you're so brave” skip what you've lost, and “it's never too late” sounds empty at the wrong moment.
Quill Originals are written by Quill. Popular sayings are widely repeated lines with no name attached. Lines with a name are checked word for word against public-domain books.
Quill Originals
Home takes a while to catch up with the address.
You can miss it and still have left.
Today the mug had a place to live. Progress.
A smaller title and the same brain.
Small talk gets rusty after a big change. People forgive it.
Put the kettle on.
You're a person who lives here now.
Say hello to someone.
Forms have small boxes for very large things.
A housewarming can be one friend and a takeaway.
The old street carries on without you. Rude, but fair.
Your past is coming with you, and it's useful luggage.
Find your bench.
Homework at the kitchen table at 9pm is a fine sight.
Friendships split when lives do. It hurts more than people admit.
Sit in the car a minute after the appointment. Nobody's rushing you.
Ask for help carrying the sofa. People like to be asked.
Their kitchen looks finished. Yours has a working toaster.
You keep reaching for a drawer from the old place. Your hand will learn.
You're allowed to skip the party this year.
You know what you can't stand now. That's valuable and took years.
Weekends take the longest to rebuild.
Popular sayings
Nothing to lose, everything to gain.
Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone.
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago; the second best time is now.
You can't turn back the clock.
A change is as good as a rest.
Never a failure, always a lesson.
From the books
Build, therefore, your own world.
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… do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names. Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable appearances, swine, spiders, snakes, pests, madhouses, prisons, enemies, …
Come, come, my young cousins, begin afresh!
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“Well! Yes, of both of you,” said Mr. Jarndyce kindly. “The time is not come for your standing pledged to one another. It is not right, and I must not recognize it. Come, come, my young cousins, begin afresh! Bygones shall be bygones, and a new page turned for you to write your lives in.”
The plow goes on after a barren year: and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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… such or such a man so much money: I would I had thrown it into the sea;” and yet the merchant trades again after a piracy, and the banker ventures afresh after a bad security. He that will do no good offices after a disappointment, must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plow goes on after a barren year: and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former. What obligations can be greater than those which children receive from their parents? and yet should we give them over in their infancy, it were all to no purpose. Benefits, like grain, must be followed from the seed to the harvest. I will not so much as leave any place for …
The past may have been hard, sad, or wrong,—but it is over.
Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
Be glad that days are to come!
An old foundation is worthy of all respect, but it must not take from us the right to build afresh wherever we will.
An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon.
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