new beginnings Quotes

“Do you remember what happened this day last year, Marilla?” “No, I can’t think of anything special.” “Oh, Marilla, it was the day I came to Green Gables. I shall never forget it. It was the turning point in my life.”

“Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

“until, some few miles hence, the yellow leaves will show no vestige of the white man’s tread. There thou art free!”

See! With this symbol, I undo it all, and make it as it had never been!”

“Forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow.”

“I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks, and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end,” he said dolefully.

They stood watching her, with faces full of love and hope and tender pride as she walked away, leaning on her husband’s arm, with her hands full of flowers and the June sunshine brightening her happy face—and so Meg’s married life began.

I must live henceforth without rank and fortune, and to begin this hard apprenticeship I must borrow from a friend the loaf I shall eat until I have earned one.

Only imagine me a captain at twenty, with a hundred louis pay, and a share in the profits!

“I am instructed to communicate to him,” said Mr. Jaggers, throwing his finger at me sideways, “that he will come into a handsome property. Further, that it is the desire of the present possessor of that property, that he be immediately removed from his present sphere of life and from this place, and be brought up as a gentleman,—in a word, as a young fellow of great expectations.”