When you’re looking to make better choices with your diet (or save some money!), one of the easiest things you can do is prep a week’s worth of meals in advance, so you have healthy food ready to go.

But is it possible to meal prep salads and keep them fresh all week?

We asked Kylie Burke, a certified holistic health coach and owner of Radiant and Abundant, to help us to put together some tips for beginners, including how to meal prep salads for the week.

How Do You Keep Salads Fresh for the Week?

While meal prepping food for your week can seem daunting, it can make it much easier to stick to your meal plan for the week and to save money.

The best part: It’s possible to prep everything you need for a week of salads ahead of time when you follow our steps.

1. Wash and portion greens

If you’re meal prepping a week of salads, the most important first step you can take is to wash and dry your greens.

They should be fully dry before you place them in the fridge.

If you want your morning departure to be super speedy, consider portioning your greens into different containers, one for each day of the week.

When you’re choosing which greens you’re going to use for your salad, keep in mind how long you need them to last in the fridge.

“Kale and purple cabbage, because they have more substantial body, aren’t going to wilt as fast as baby spinach or other light-bodied greens” like iceberg lettuce, Burke says.

2. Add some crunch

While the freshness of your salad greens is an important aspect of meal prepping for a week’s worth of eating, it’s also important to consider your taste buds.

If you get bored eating the same thing all the time, you’re more likely to skip the salad and pick up some fast food for lunch instead.

One easy way to keep your salads fresh each day is to create a variety of textures, one of which is crunch.

We crave crunchy foods, and it’s important to give that to yourself through healthy toppings instead of an afternoon bag of chips.

Some great topping options to add crunch to your salad include:

• Toasted nuts
• Pepitas or pumpkin seeds
• Whole wheat croutons
• Tortilla strips
• Sunflower seeds
• Toasted coconut
• Chia seeds
• Crunchy veggies such as carrots, radishes, or snap peas

3. Don’t forget the protein

Adding an element of protein to your salad will help you to stay full longer, and it also adds another component to your meal which can be switched up from day to day.

If you do choose to add protein to your salad, you’re likely going to want to store this separately from your other ingredients to maintain freshness (more on that below).

Here some protein ideas to add to your salad:

• Chicken (Burke recommends buying a rotisserie chicken and shredding it for cheap and easy food prep)
• Steak
• Beans
• Tofu or tempeh
• Beans
• Nuts

4. Prep toppings

When it comes to toppings, the most important thing to remember is that you should work smarter, not harder.

“If you’re short on time, let the store do the work for you!” says Burke. “Easy meal prep is done with pre-prepped items like shredded cabbage, shredded carrots, sliced radishes, or anything else that’s pre-chopped at your grocery store.”

Your toppings should be stored separately from your greens to ensure high-quality freshness — or you can use a layering technique to keep everything in one container (again, more on that below).

5. Experiment with salad dressings

While there are tons of ready-made, healthy salad dressings on the market, you can also make your own in a food processor with minimal effort.

Have a few dressings on hand to instantly change up the flavor profile of your salads.

Here are a few of Kylie’s favorites to add variety:

• Peanut dressing for a Thai kick
• Ranch for a Cobb salad
• Vinegar and olive oil for a Greek salad
• Miso dressing for Asian flair
• Sriracha for some kick

6. Use multiple containers

Once you’ve gotten all your various ingredients ready for the week, having the right containers on hand can make all the difference.

You’ll want a variety of sizes, and if possible, enough containers that you don’t have to wash them each night to re-pack for the next day.

For each day that you’re prepping a salad, you’ll want containers for these ingredients:

• A large container for greens. Make sure this container is big enough so you can combine all of your ingredients from other containers and eat right out of this one.
• A medium container for wet ingredients. This might include tomatoes, onions, and cucumbers.
• A small container for your dressing. Pour it on when you’re ready to eat, and not a moment before.

While you don’t have to keep your ingredients separate, this can help maintain the crispness of your greens and keep them fresh as your week continues.

It’s especially important to keep your dressing separate, though, as that can wilt greens in a few hours.

7. …Or deploy strategic layering

If you don’t have the time or the Tupperware to keep your greens separate from the other ingredients in your salads, strategic layering is helpful.

“Place the heavy items on the bottom so as not to crush your greens,” says Kylie. “This will prevent items from going bad as quickly.”

Grains, proteins, and cheeses go at the bottom, then work your way up to cooked veggies, raw veggies, and lastly your greens.

This keeps your greens fresher and will keep them from getting smashed or mushy.

Even with layering, though, you still need to be wary of wet ingredients such as chopped tomatoes, which can wilt your greens quickly.

8. Add something absorbent

One way to keep your greens looking fresh in the fridge during the week is to place a paper towel in the bottom of the container where you’re storing them.

This will help absorb any excess moisture and ensure your greens stay fresh. Just make sure to remove it before eating.

If you’re keeping wet ingredients in the same container for a salad to be eaten that day, you can also use a paper towel to separate the ingredients and protect your greens.

How to Keep From Getting Bored

Simple changes such as the toppings you put on your salad or the dressing you use can ensure that your salads stay fresh on your taste buds all week and keeps you satiated.

Here are a couple tips.

1. Prioritize variety when you’re shopping

Challenge yourself to avoid buying the same ingredients every week. When you’re shopping, consider the following:

• Look for a variety of bright colors to get different vitamins and antioxidants.
• Choose a flavor boost such as citrus, fresh herbs, or dried fruits.
• Consider adding pickled or fermented elements such as pickled beets or carrots, kimchi, or even sauerkraut.
• Make sure your toppings lend a variety of textures to your meal.

2. Skip the lettuce

Salad doesn’t always have to include lettuce. You can use lettuce at the beginning of the week and then replace it towards the end of the week with a heartier green such as kale.

That helps to avoid the wilted-lettuce Thursday salad.

3. Skip leafy greens entirely

Or if you’re up for trying some alternative salad types, consider having salad at the beginning of the week and then evolving into grain bowls towards the end of the week.

Grain bowls can be very veggie-centric — and easier to preserve in the fridge for a week at a time.

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You open your eyes as the morning sun is flowing into your home.

A brand new day is here. What will you do with it?

In today’s post I’d like to share time-tested wisdom about just that. The 102 best new day quotes that I’ve found in the past few years.

I hope this post will help you to set a positive and motivated tone for your morning. Because I’ve found that the tone you set for the start of your day tends to spill over to the rest of the day too.

And if you want even more inspirational quotes then check out this post with quotes on better days ahead and this one filled with new beginnings quotes.

Inspirational New Day Quotes

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend or a meaningful day.”
Dalai Lama

“Today is a brand new day. Forget about yesterday. It does not matter. Forget about tomorrow, it will take care of itself. Concentrate on this day. Make it the best ever.”
Mary-Frances Winters

“Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it.”
Mary Pickford

“I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written.”
Juansen Dizon

“Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.”
Carrie Underwood

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell

“The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.”
Terry Goodkind

“It takes strength to step enthusiastically into each day of our lives. This strength comes more readily on some days than on others, but every day makes demands on us.”
Karen Casey

“Every day that you open your eyes is a new day and another day to get it right.”
Jean Renee Porter

“Today is a brand new day, a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up.”
Richelle E. Goodrich

“Today is a day for you to begin creating a joyous, fulfilling life. Today is the day to begin to release all your limitations. Today is the day for you to learn the secrets of life. You can change your life for the better. You already have the tools within you to do so. These tools are your thoughts and your beliefs.”
Louise Hay

“Yesterday ended last night, today is a brand-new day. And it’s yours.”
Zig Ziglar

“Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.”
Dwight Howard

“As you wake up today a new day lies before you. How will you use it? What will you fill it with? Take a couple of minutes to ponder those questions and then start building an excellent day that you’ll remember.”
Unknown

“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.”
Og Mandino

“Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.”
Catherine Pulsifer

“Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.”
Ben Zobrist

“This new day has greeted us with no rules; unconditional opportunity. Do not dilute the power of this new day with the hardship of yesterday. Greet this day the way it has greeted you; with open arms and endless possibility.”
Steve Maraboli

“Everyday is a new life to a wise man.”
Dale Carnegie

“Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations are really present thoughts. No one has ever lived in any moment except the present.”
Emmet Fox

“All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.”
Shannon L. Alder

“Celebrate the new day with shouts of praise, love and grace and with a beautiful smile upon your face.”
Caroline Naoroji

“Each new day offers the chance to start afresh, to achieve those things you most desires.”
Steven Redhead

“You cannot go back and start a brand new beginning, but today is a new day and you can start a brand new thing.”
Debasish Mridha

“Wash away negative experiences of the day from your mind. Be confident in knowing that a new day brings new experiences and a new beginning.”
Shadonna Richards

“A new day is a new chance to do what you deep want and need.”
Unknown

“Imagine if we treated each new dawn of each new day with the same reverence and joy as we do each new year.”
Angie Lynn

“The past is gone. Today is full of possibilities.”
Karen Casey

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
Ernest Hemingway

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
Abbie Hoffman

“That’s the beauty of a grand new day—it’s available to every person in unique and fresh ways.”
Margaret Feinberg

“Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.”
Doe Zantamata

You may also find this post with quotes on starting over uplifting and helpful.

Motivating Tomorrow is a New Day Quotes

“On the other side of this darkness, a new day will slowly dawn.”
Corban Addison

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
L.M. Montgomery

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Zig Ziglar

“I’m glad tomorrow’s a new day ’cause I really messed this one up.”
Susan Gale

“Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo

“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”
Brad Paisley

“Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.”
Zig Ziglar

“Never discount the simple power of a new day and a fresh morning for new ideas and steps forward in your life.”
Unknown

“Never look back reminiscing on yesterday, smile for the future tomorrow’s a new day.”
Zayn Malik

“Yes, today was a tough and rough day. But don’t carry it with you. As best you can, let tomorrow be a fresh start and a new blessing.”
Unknown

“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Believe in the future’s promise, each new day brings a new chance.”
Wish Belkin

“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
Colin Powell

“If you’re not getting it perfect, life is still going to go around. The world still turns. It’s going to be OK. Tomorrow is a new day.”
Katy Mixon

“The present circumstances may look a bit bleak as you go to bed. But try to leave as much of that as you can behind as you go into tomorrow and as you work to make it into a better and beautiful day.”
Unknown

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive and Uplifting New Day Quotes

“By being the best, you can be, the most skillful in your endeavor and by loving yourself, your life and what you do with it, you’ll happily begin every new day with a spring in your step.”
Ross Wilson

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Buddha

“You just can’t live that negative way. You know what I mean? Make way for the positive day cause it’s a new day.”
Bob Marley

“It’s a new day. You don”t have to look behind and relive the past with regret and you don’t have to dream of a distant future to try to capture happiness. Today is your time and you can be happy today.”
Patricia Edwards

“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
Alan Cohen

“When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.”
F. Sionil Jose

“This is a new day. Begin anew to claim and create all that is good.”
Louise Hay

“Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper.”
Haruki Murakami

“There is beauty laced within this day, be courageous enough to find it, be kind enough to share it, and at the end of the day, be wise enough to let it go.”
Steve Maraboli

“Each day is a new day, a new opportunity to work towards making your life the way you want it.”
Josie Cluney

“New day, new hopes, new life.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.”
Marsha Petrie Sue

“If you’re not happy today, then you won’t be happy and glad tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.”
Sonja Lyubomirsky

“Get your day off to a positive start: establish a daily self-care routine so you can face the world feeling fresh.”
Julia Laflin

“Every single day is an opportunity for you to start anew; I call this my ’24-hour Reset Button.’ Each new day stands alone and brings you another chance to move closer towards your goals, so make each day a Great Day!”
Tamara Tilleman

“New day. New thoughts. New strength. New possibilities.”
Karen Salmansohn

“Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life; gifted with hopes to succeed.”
Aniruddha Sastikar

“Every day is new. It’s just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.”
Wiz Khalifa

“Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.”
Douglas Pagels

“Today is a new day for the land.”
Antonis Samaras

“Today is a new day. It’s a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the same crap, different day lie. How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today. Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.”
Steve Maraboli

“Every new day begins with possibilities.”
Ronald Reagan

“To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.”
Debbie Ford

Be sure to check out this post about turning a bad day around out too.

Morning Quotes to Start Your New Day Just Right

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
Dalai Lama

“There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.”
Alan Watts

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
Meister Eckhart

“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“If the sun comes up, I have a chance.”
Venus Williams

“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
Harvey Mackay

“Getting a good start in the morning is the difference between having a mentally and physically good day and a terrible day.”
Sumit Gautam

“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”
Henry Ward Beecher

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
J. B. Priestley

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
Lemony Snicket

“No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.”
Buddha

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Mark Twain

“I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.”
Paul Henderson

“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
Billy Wilder

“Here on the pulse of this new day, you may have the grace to look up and out and into your sister’s eyes, into your brother’s face, your country and say simply, very simply, with hope, good morning.”
Maya Angelou

“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed.”
Malak El Halabi

“Today’s a new day. It’s your day. You shape it. Don’t let it be shaped by someone else’s ignorance or fear.”
Steve Maraboli

“Every morning is a chance at a new day.”
Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“If you want to get your work done 50% faster in a given day, meditate for 20 minutes in the morning.”
Tim Ferriss

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
George Horace Lorimer

“Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days—which inevitably create a successful life.”
Hal Elrod

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
Richard Whately

“A brand new morning, as that first light of the day hits your face, brings new hope and new opportunities to receive with open arms.”
Unknown

“At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.”
Czeslaw Milosz

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

“Just aim at making this next morning coming up in your life into a good one, into one that sets a positive tone for the rest of your day.”
Unknown

“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.”
Victor Hugo

“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a deep breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson

Want even more fresh energy and motivational quotes? Check out this post with inspiring quotes about positive energy and this one that’s all about having a good morning.

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Today I’d like to share a collection of quotes about new beginnings.

This one’s for you that wants to make a change in your life.

Get a fresh start.

Let go of something and move on to something better and more fulfilling.

No matter if that’s at work, in your business, in a relationship or in some other important area of your life.

Plus, in the second part of the post I’ve included 5 of my favorite steps that have helped me the most to make a new beginnings in my own life.

I hope you’ll find something here that will both inspire you and help you practically to make a change and get that new beginning you need.

You may also find this collection of confidence quotes and this one filled with quotes on having a growth mindset helpful for the process of moving forward.

Inspiring Quotes About New Beginnings

“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.”
Marsha Petrie Sue

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”
Guy Finley

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
Flavia Weedn

“Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.”
Ralph Blum

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
Soren Kierkegaard

“No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.”
Buddha

“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”
Desmond Tutu

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell

”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
Richard Branson

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.”
J.P. Morgan

“Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.”
Catherine Pulsifer

“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.”
Unknown

“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
Steve Jobs

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

“The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.”
Arnold Bennett

“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
Nicholas Sparks

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
Mark Victor Hansen

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
Mary Pickford

“A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”
Jodi Picoult

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.”
Louis L’Amour

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
Hermann Hesse

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
L.M. Montgomery

“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.”
Germany Kent

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Lyndon B. Johnson

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
Albert Ellis

“Perhaps that is where our choice lies—in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.”
Elana K. Arnold

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
Plato

“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
Alan Cohen

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C.S. Lewis

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
Terry Pratchett

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”
Tony Schwartz

“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”
Oprah

“When we go back in to the past and rake up all the troubles we’ve had, we end up reeling and staggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.”
Pam W. Vredevelt

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”’
Henry Ford

“Your past does not equal your future.”
Anthony Robbins

“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.”
Bob Newhart

“Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot

“Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.”
Bryant McGill

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
Seneca

“Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?”
Leo Buscaglia

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
T.S. Eliot

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”
Jan Glidewell

”You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”
Candace Bushnell

“The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.”
Faraaz Kazi

“Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.”
Ralph Marston

“No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.”
Jack Kornfield

“We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.”
C. JoyBell C.

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.”
Angelina Jolie

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.“
Meister Eckhart

“Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.”
Muhammad Ali

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
Dolly Parton

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.”
Albert Camus

“We are meant to keep focused for new life, for new beginnings, for new experiences, and to use our abilities to move beyond all those things that may serve as excuses to confine us to the now.”
Byron Pulsifer

“I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey – a journey that requires a plan.”
Vivian Jokotade

“If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.”
Richelle E. Goodrich

“If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.”
Rumi

“You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.”
Barabra Sher

“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
Robin Sharma

“Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.”
Jim Rohn

“The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.”
Marquise du Deffand

“It’s humbling to start fresh. It takes a lot of courage. But it can be reinvigorating. You just have to put your ego on a shelf & tell it to be quiet.”
Jennifer Ritchie Payette

“Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.”
Paulo Coelho

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Making the beginning is one third of the work.”
Irish Proverb

“Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.”
Kristin Kreuk

“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.”
Anne Sullivan

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
J. B. Priestly

“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
Carl Bard

“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”
Tina Fey

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen Lamb

“20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu

Inspiring Quotes About Endings, Starting Over and New Beginnings

“The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.”
Dave Weinbaum

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
Lao Tzu

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
T.S. Eliot

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
Flora Whittemore

“From the end spring new beginnings.”
Pliny the Elder

“It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Don’t let the lessons, the experiences of the past, dampen your enthusiasm for beginnings. Just because it’s been hard doesn’t mean it will always be that difficult.”
Melody Beattie

“To greet a lovely morning, we must leave the night behind.”
Tarang Sinha

“New beginnings are starting daily through every new morning opening new wonders and mercies of healings and blessings of opportunity to nurture the soul.”
Rosalee Ervin

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
John Dewey

“The bad news is that most people give up; they settle for second best; they don’t start over; they stay stuck. Please don’t allow that to be you.”
Doug Fields

“Let’s forget the baggages of the past and make a new beginning.”
Shahbaz Sharif

“The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Socrates

“There is always an opportunity to start again and again, if the old ways are not working last year, look for better ways of doing it in the new year and start again afresh.”
Bamigboye Olurotimi

“Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.”
Jan Myrdal

“Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.”
Dale Turner

“When faced with a large project, remember you move a mountain one stone at a time.”
Catherine Pulsifer

“It isn’t always a change of scenery needed to make life better. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes.”
Richelle E. Goodrich

“After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.”
Alfred Edward Perlman

“We grow up with such an idealistic view on how our life should be; love, friendships, a career or even the place we will live ~ only to age and realise none of it is what you expected and reality is a little disheartening, when you’ve reached that realisation; you have learnt the gift of all, any new beginning can start now and if you want anything bad enough you’ll find the courage to pursue it with all you have. The past doesn’t have to be the future, stop making it so.”
Nikki Rowe

“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
Thomas Edison

“The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.”
J.R. Rim

“Everything begins at the beginning, and quite often the beginning begins when you shift your mind in a new direction.”
Louie Herron

“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.”
Maya Angelou

“Retirement is not just walking away from work; it is also walking toward something new.”
Sara Yogev

“Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.”
Jim Rohn

“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights”
Hamilton Wright Mabie

“All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.”
Shannon L. Alder

“Don’t be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That’s only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.”
Olga Korbut

Quotes About New Love and New Relationship Beginnings

“The draft you feel after your heart has been broken is simply the essential airing out of your soul to help establish fresh, new beginnings.”
Michelle C. Ustaszeski

“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
Frederick Buechner

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
Shannon L. Alder

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”
Joseph Campbell

“Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know.”
Pema Chödrön

“You must be strong enough to know that love will come to you when you are ready. You must be strong enough to know when to say goodbye, and know that letting go is not weak.”
Marisa Donnelly

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
C. S. Lewis

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
Thomas Merton

“When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear…. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.”
Gerald G. Jampolsky

“Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
Mae West

My 5 Favorite Steps for Making a New Beginning

Step 1: First accept what is to more easily let go.

The first part of making a new beginning for yourself will often be to let go of what has been to be able to make room for the new thing.

And one key thing that has helped me to let go is to accept what is and has happened.

Why?

Well, if you still struggle in your mind against what has already happened then you feed that memory or situation with more energy.

You might, for example, make what someone said or did even bigger and even more powerful in your head than it may have actually been in reality.

By accepting that what happened – for instance that you were rejected after a date or let go from your job – and letting that in instead of trying to push it away I’ve found that often something odd happens after a while.

The memory or the issue becomes less powerful in my mind. I don’t feel as upset or sad about it as I did before. I become less attached emotionally to it.

And so it most often becomes easier for me to let go and for me to move on with my life.

Step 2: Forgive (for your own sake and to help yourself).

If someone wrongs you then that will likely cause you pain – sometimes a bit, sometimes a lot – for a while.

But after some time has passed you have a choice.

You can refuse to let go of what happened. And instead let it interfere with your life, your relationships and replay what happened over and over in your mind.

I have done that many times. And often for far too long.

Or you can choose to forgive.

Now, first accepting what has happened as mentioned in the previous step can make it easier to forgive.

Another thing that has helped me is to not focus on forgiving because “that’s something I’m supposed to do”.

I have found that I get more motivated to forgive for my own sake. For my own health and well-being and to live a happier life.

I like this quote and reminder from Catherine Ponder to help me to make a decision to forgive:

“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”

Now, just because I forgive doesn’t mean that I have to stay passive as I move forward.

I may for example choose to forgive but to spend less time or no time with someone who has hurt me.

Step 3: Keep your focus on what you CAN influence in your life.

So the first two tips in this post have hopefully helped you to start letting go of the past and what happened to be able to make room for your new beginning.

At this point it is important to keep you focus steadily on what you can control and influence in your life to not lapse back into replaying old memories or getting lost in daydreaming and procrastination.

So ask yourself:

• What CAN I focus my time and energy on to actually make positive progress and a new beginning in my life?
• And what is one small step I can take today to get started with that?

If you like, write those two questions down somewhere where you cannot avoid seeing them every day. This will help you to keep yourself on track as you move into the new situation and start in your life.

Step 4: Don’t make the new beginning something huge and vague in your head.

Sometimes we make doing something or getting a fresh start into something big and vague in our minds.

And so it becomes easy to get scared of creating the new beginning you want and you instead start procrastinating.

Two things that have helped me with that – besides asking the two questions in step #3 – are to:

Get knowledge from people who have already gone where you want to go.

This will defuse vague fears about what could happen if you started making the change you want.

Because learning from others about what obstacles they faced and how their own journey unfolded will give you a more realistic road map for your own journey than the thoughts may be bouncing around in your head and that are creating mountains out of molehills.

So talk to people who have gone where you want to go or find their advice in books, on websites, in podcasts or on Youtube.

Ask yourself: Honestly, what is realistically the worst that could happen?

First, take a couple of deep breaths to calm your mind down a bit.

Then ask yourself this question.

And you’ll likely realize that the worst thing that could realistically happen is not that bad.

Yes, it may sting or be tough for a bit. But it is something you can handle. And it is a situation you can find something to do about if that worst scenario were to actually happen.

The clarity you get from asking yourself this question has been so helpful in my own life and allowed me to calm down, find a path forward in my mind and take action to make my dream or goal into reality.

Step 5: Find encouragement and help from other people.

As you get started with your journey, check if someone you know wants to tag along. Perhaps you have a friend that also wants to start working out at the gym.

And if you can’t find someone that can participate so directly in your new beginning then be sure to keep feeding your mind with positive encouragement as you move forward.

You can find such encouragement and support from friends and family. Or from sources a bit further away in the world such as books, Youtube-videos, movies, podcasts or websites.

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