Truman Capote Quotes

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

I wake up every morning new, free as a bird.

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.

But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.

I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.

You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

We don't have to be imprisoned by the past. When something isn't working, we can and should change.

Come and try me. Forget the past, if it makes you sad. I am the Land of the Second Chance. I am the Land of Beginning Again. I will not ask who your ancestors were. I want You- nothing matters now but just you and me, and we will make good together" This is the invitation of the prairie to the discouraged and weary ones of the old lands, whose dreams have failed, whose plans are gone wrong and were ready to fall out of the race.

The happiest time in any man’s life is just after his first divorce.

It is a good thing to start fresh.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

A lot of people tend to get intimidated by looking at a place where they're from as empty. I look at it like a clean slate.

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.