Starting Again Quotes

“Humble new beginnings do exist, but to begin, you must be humble. Nothing ever stays the same.”
― Melody Carstairs

“In the ashes of bitter tragedy, lie the seeds of astonishing rebirth.”
― Stewart Stafford

“hiding

searching, searching

hiding

remembering

home

myself”
― malebo sephodi

“Bajé las escaleras, despacio. Sentía una viva emoción. Recordaba la terrible esperanza, el anhelo de vida con que las había subido por primera vez. Me marchaba ahora sin haber conocido nada de lo que confusamente esperaba: la vida en su plenitud, la alegría, el interés profundo, el amor. De la casa de la calle de Aribau no me llevaba nada. Al menos, así creía yo entonces.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“Fear shrank as the week went on. It had not disappeared; Annabel was simply becoming familiar with doing the things it had forbidden. Each coffee, conversation and train journey left something behind that reassurance alone could never have supplied: proof that she had coped.

Each encounter became what Bandura called a mastery experience: direct evidence that Annabel could manage the situation. Confidence is rather unhelpful about arriving in advance. More often, it turns up afterwards carrying the receipts.”
― Ms Annabel Francis, Earned Optimism: Hope, Identity and Being Authentically Yourself