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“I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.”

Years Stars Five Car Six Tough Accidents Quitting Boxing I Quit Car Accident Old Life

Author:Olivier Martinez

“There are some people in your life who bring back old memories. And there are others - your first kiss, your first love, your first sex - who, the moment you see them, bring a spark...and something far more potent. They bring back your old life and with that, potential. And possibilities. And the feeling that if you were back in that time, life could be so very different from where you're stuck right now. That's the most tantalizing thing....I want my potential back.”

Source: The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1

“God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.”

Giving Doe Certain Birth New Life Patches Old Life Patch Up

Author:Kathryn Kuhlman

“Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.”

Ifs Firsts Doe Spiritual Bits Conditions Goes On Awakening New Life Spiritual Awakening Sobriety Old Life

Author:Bill W.

“I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.”

Trapped New Relationship Old Life

Author:Moon Unit Zappa

“My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.”

Dream Reality Discarded Old Life

Book:The go-between

Source: The go-between

“People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.”

People Earth Asks Wish Fame Ask Me Being Famous Old Life

Author:Zach Braff

“My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.”

Want Ends Personality Easier Findings Faults Complaining Associates Whining Old Life Fault Finding

Book:The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story

“After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We’d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.”

Persons Lying Waiting Imagine Changed Killing Holes Transformed Old Life Awfulness

Author:Elizabeth McCracken

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”

Source: Emily Dickinson

“Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.”

Ifs Has Beens Marriage Office Tiny Magazines Inches Adultery Old Life

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant”

Source: Socrates: 100 Quotes on Life, Free Will, and Virtue

“On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of Terrence Jaxon, signatory of the One Law; great-great-nephew of the one known as Auntie, Last of the First; Peter of Souls, the Man of Days and the One Who Stood-took his position on the catwalk above Main Gate, waiting to kill his brother.”

Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

“Life can only be understood backwards.”

“Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.”

Has Beens Safety Defeat Resistance Knees Rescue Deliverance Shattering Old Life Wiping Out

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.”

Heart Christian Accepting Christianity Bridges Serving God Promotion Patches Starting Over Old Life

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.”

Years Looks Certain Emotion Week Periods Gaps Old Life

Book:The History of Henry Esmond, Esq: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne. Written by Himself

Source: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne. Written by Himself

“In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.”

Christ Higher Crosses Planes Old Life

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

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