“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
L.M. Montgomery
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
Taylor Swift
“But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation."
Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
T.S. Eliot
“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
Meister Eckhart
“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”
John Steinbeck
“True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“The beginning is always today.”
Mary Shelley
“I'll never understand why everybody puts so much emphasis on January first. There are three hundred and sixty-four other days in the year that you can make a change. Or make a fresh start.”
Elizabeth Eulberg, Better off Friends
“I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”