New Life Quotes - Page 7

• After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Important, This Life

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• Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

  Paul Ryan

  Mom, Mother, Morning

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.

  William Gurnall

  Art, Prayer, Children

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.294

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• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

  Agatha Christie

  Life, Retirement, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Peace, Order, Despair

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• You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see -- It would be my present to you, my sweet, If it weren't your gift to me.

  A. A. Milne

  Mother, Sweet, Book

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.3, Egmont UK

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• Getting a life’ is something only a complete idiot could believe. Like you can just drive to a store and get a life. See it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, ‘Wow, I look much happier — I think this is the life I need to get!’, take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. If getting a life was that easy, we’d be one blissed-out race.

  John Green

  Believe, Thinking, Race

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.44, Penguin

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• The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.

  Lauren Oliver

  Kissing, Feelings, Rescue

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

  Karen Armstrong

  Darkness, Ascent, Height

  Karen Armstrong (2004). “A Short History Of Myth”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Voice, Desert, Cactus

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I have friends who have children, and they have told me how remarkable it is to have a new life that is a piece of your own flesh anf blood. But I --" "I realized that I didn't love her because she was a piece of me, I loved her because she was a piece of you.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Blood, Pieces

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• In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children, the faith of enthusiasts, who sing hallelujahs above the clouds; and the vanity of authors, who presume the immortality of their name and writings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hope, Children, Writing

  Edward Gibbon (1827). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, 1”, p.258

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• For men to tell how human life began
  Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

  John Milton

  Life, Men, Humans

  1665 Adam to Raphael. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.250-1.

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• Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. So the mind is a modifier, a reactor; a renovator, but it cannot create the new.

  Barry Long

  Life, Past, Love Is

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.

  Austin Phelps

  Christian, Prayer, Book

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• I mean, when I think about it, what's more important? Clothes - or the miracle of new life?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mean, Thinking, Clothes

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• And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Summer, Tree

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." "My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Long, Rooms, Life Is

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.80, Dial Press

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• When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn’t imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I’m gone for six days it feels like too much.

  Adam Carolla

  Christmas, Dad, Kids

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life.

  Ernest Holmes

  Light, Safe, Overcoming

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “Creative Mind”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to the earth. the earth welcomes the body-coaxes new life and beauty from it, hurries over what men shudder at. Lovely tender herbage bursts from the graves, swiftly, exulting over corruption.

  Emily Carr

  Men, Giving, Lovely

  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Two, Sun

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• Today.....I begin a new life".

  Og Mandino

  Today

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.45, Bantam

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• What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

  Walker Percy

  Girl, Song, Eye

  Walker Percy (1978). “Love in the ruins: the adventures of a bad Catholic at a time near the end of the world”

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• This whole time, my whole life, that harsh, stony path was leading up to this one point. I followed it blindly, stumbling along the way, scraped and weary, without any idea of where it was leading, without ever realizing that with every step I was approaching the light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel. And now that I've reached it, now that I'm here, I want to catch it in my hand, hold onto it forever to look back on - the point at which my new life really began.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Dark, Tunnels, Light

  Tabitha Suzuma (2011). “Forbidden”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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