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  New Beginnings Quotes - The future is nothing but a blank canvas   “A person can start off fresh in this place,” Leila had told me that first night. “For anyone who ever wanted to escape their life, there’s no better hotel to check into than this one.” ― Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel   “Each day was a struggle, life's meaning veiled in sorrow's plight, Drowning in my own tears, embracing the darkest nights Hunger was my constant companion, I lived on dry bread and tea, Yearning for relief, wondering if tomorrow's hope I will see.” ― Hagir Elsheikh   “Follow your heart, do what inspires you.” ― Mitta Xinindlu   “The future is nothing but a blank canvas” ― Manuel Corazzari   “To take one path forward, you leave another behind. Maybe one dream conflicts with another, and you realize you can’t hold on to both any longer. As logical as it might be, you will grieve the loss of what could have been.” ― Emily Grabatin, Dare to ...

  New Beginnings Quotes - Bravery isn't loud. It's laced with trembling trust   “God's strength isn't given to the 'already strong', but to the weary who still whisper yes.” ― Karen Brough, Take a Step with Him Companion Guidebook - Adventuring with God into Fresh Beginnings   “You are not forgotten in the fog.” ― Karen Brough, Take a Step with Him Companion Guidebook - Adventuring with God into Fresh Beginnings   “Bravery isn't loud. It's laced with trembling trust.” ― Karen Brough, Take a Step with Him - Adventuring with God into Fresh Beginnings   “Stillness doesn't mean stuckness—it means surrender.” ― Karen Brough, Take a Step with Him - Adventuring with God into Fresh Beginnings   “What feels like a wilderness might be the very place your soul starts to breathe.” ― Karen Brough, Take a Step with Him - Adventuring with God into Fresh Beginnings   “You don't have to leap—you just have to step with Him.” ― K...

  New Beginnings Quotes - Not all healing is immediate, but all hope is eternal   “He spoke slowly. “You know, you might think you are strong by holding on to all of this, but I think letting it go might make you stronger.” ― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet   “I hate crickets,” he said. “Yes,” she replied. “Crickets are like cilantro. You either love ‘em or hate ‘em." “Did you just say cilantro?” The look on his face suggested she had just lost her mind. ” ― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet   “We all begin again.” ― Trang Thanh Tran, They Bloom at Night   “Nevertheless, he felt that this leave-taking would be more final than his earlier ones had been; that it meant a definite break with his old home and the beginning of something new—he did not know what.” ― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!   “There is a new dawn in every new breath that is bestowed upon us. We have a choice how to Live, how to Love. Do not look back ...

  Books Quotes - I hoard books. They are people who do not leave   “If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.” ― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue   “So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!” ― Brian Jacques, Lord Brocktree   “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” ― Joseph Brodsky   “I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.” ― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader   “Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun   “But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little valu...

  Books Quotes - To build up a library is to create a life “I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?   “Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way that people were alive, or even dogs or cats. (...) Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by torch light beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. (...) They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them...

  Books Quotes - What is reading but silent conversation   “I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars   “She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.” ― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent   “You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger   “This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I'm a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books. And I don't have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read.” ― Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book   “She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rai...