Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

There is always a time to move on.

I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over.

As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.

Today is a brand new beginning for me!

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

In my new life, no room for a lost boy.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

They say when you reach a crossroad or a turning point in life, it really doesn't matter how we got there, but it's what we do next after we got there. Usually you arrive there by adversity, and then it is then and only then that we find out who we truly are and what we're truly made of. It's a process, a gift and a journey, and if we can travel it alone, although the road may be rough at the beginning, you find an ability to walk it. A way to start fresh again. It's neither a downfall nor a failure, but a new beginning.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.