Browsing Topic Best Starting Anew Quotes

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in between that we fear . . . . It’s like being between trapezes. It’s Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There’s nothing to hold on to.

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you’ll be forever in the control of things you can’t give up.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew… | Hooded by a dark sense of destination… | Travelers, we’re fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time’s flow.

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride – nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

I followed my wanderlust. It bruised me sometimes, and took me to all kinds of highs. Now that my thirst is slaked, I get to start anew.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

There’s no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We’re all transparent against the face of the clock.

If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with ourselves in the face of life or death, prominence or obscurity, or an infinite amount of changes and variations, and will be in accord with principle.

I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.

Let’s start anew. Life is goals – Purpose-Attempts – Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it’s actually simple.

If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.