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• The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Cities, Glasses

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.197

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• As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life

  Alice Sebold

  Kissing, Sides, Ifs

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• I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Breathing, Smell, Body

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.3, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• 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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• No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is important for you Latter-day Saint women to understand that the Lord holds motherhood and mothers sacred and in the highest esteem. He has entrusted to his daughters the great responsibility of bearing and nurturing children.... There is divinity in each new life.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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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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• Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everything else we love-everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires'-it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Distance, Passion

  FaceBook post by Christopher McDougall from Jan 17, 2013

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• Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.

  Cassandra Clare

  Life, Change, Pain

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Clockwork Angel”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Waiting, Conviction, Exciting

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Grief, Long, Different

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• Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teaching, Giving, Empowering

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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• In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

  Dante Alighieri

  Memories, Book, Littles

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• The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Falling In Love, Men, Long

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.390, Faber & Faber

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• The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mom, Mother, Artist

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• Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.

  Karen White

  Decision, Vision, Needs

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• And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Morning, Eerie, Decision

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• It is an ancient story
  Yet is it ever new.

  Heinrich Heine

  Life, Stories, Ancient

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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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• Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve.

  Tosca Lee

  Beautiful, Afterlife, New Orleans

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• Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.

  Brian Houston

  Jesus, Live Life, Heart

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2015

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• As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

  Heart, Passion, Thinking

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1978). “The Fruit of Lips: Of Why Four Gospels?”, p.85, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the tasks of early adulthood-establishing independence and intimacy-burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Growing Up, Memories, Children

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• In uniting yourself to God's will, you take on new life and gather great courage, willingly embracing the cross and kissing His hand even when it chastises you, a hand that reaches out to you in love and has no other intention but your greater spiritual well-being.

  Paul of the Cross

  Spiritual, Kissing, Hands

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• When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life.

  Saint Augustine

  Baby, People, Miracle

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