Christopher Gerrits > Christopher's Quotes

“Grief makes unlikely warriors out of us all.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

“Graveyards and Gardens There are graveyards inside you made of people that made you ache, made of memories that you barely survived made of trauma and heartbreak. These graveyards need to become gardens where you plant flowers that blossom, for you to let go.”
― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers

“When the day's mistakes are too much to bear, when everything feels like devastation beyond repair, remind yourself: how mystical it is that every day, the clocks reset to 00:00 the reason they say midnight is the witching hour, is because a new day rises from the ashes of the old, embers breathe new life to its fire, giving us a chance to mend, a chance to restore, all that is broken and what you thought was lost.”
― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty

“Grandmothers are a gift not to be taken lightly. So many lose them, before they are old enough to know their magic. I am glad my bones were born with this knowledge. She taught me how to become a good ancestor. At least this - loving her presence, appreciating her wisdom - is something I know how to do well.”
― Nikita Gill, The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom

“And sometimes, you are going to be
as fierce as a dragon
armed in scales of impenetrable gold
and sometimes you are going to be
as vulnerable as a lamb,
soft and comforting in newborn wool.
Both versions of you deserve to be loved.
Both versions of you are needed.
Both versions of you are beautiful.”
― Nikita Gill

“I am more powerful than I am damaged and I will rise from any abyss you drown me in.”
― Nikita Gill

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“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

“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, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of "second chances". Their eulogy is a reminder that the living can turn their lives around at any point. You’re not bound by the past; that is who you used to be. You’re reminded that your feelings are not who you are, but how you felt at that moment. Your bad choices defined you yesterday, but they are not who you are today. Your future doesn’t have to travel the same path with the same people. You can start over. You don’t have to apologize to people that won’t listen. You don’t have to justify your feelings or actions, during a difficult time in your life. You don’t have to put up with people that are insecure and want you to fail. All you have to do is walk forward with a positive outlook, and trust that God has a plan that is greater than the sorrow you left behind. The people of quality that were meant to be in your life won’t need you to explain the beauty of your heart. They already understand what being human is----a roller coaster ride of emotions during rainstorms and sunshine, sprinkled with moments when you can almost reach the stars.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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

“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 & 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

“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

“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, Burning

“You'll reach a comfort zone in your life and start to wonder how you got there, how did you miss the sign posts that directed your real inner truth? Don't feel so guilty, you know when your meant to know and I guess that's the thing they don't teach you; when growing up, pain is inevitable but staying the same is a choice. Don't question why your feeling ready for something new, question why you stayed the same for so long.”
― Nikki Rowe

“In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The more I stepped away from darkness, the less it felt like home.”
― Mitali Meelan, Coffee and Ordinary Life

“Every day is a new beginning. I can take advantage of the opportunity and try again.”
― Mykisha Mac

“We get to grab the pen and write the next line. We aren’t starting a whole new book; we are just writing a new chapter. The last chapter of our life ended with the loss—the divorce, the death of a dream, the career collapse, whatever it may be. Even though it ended, this is where the story gets good. We get to decide what happens next. If we are still alive, we get to dream!
You haven’t lost it all. You are still here! This isn’t the end of your story; it’s the start of a new chapter, and you, my friend, are holding the pen. What do you want your story to be?”
― Kayla Stoecklein, Rebuilding Beautiful: Welcome What Is, Dare to Dream Again, and Step Bravely into What Could Be

“You are not beginning again like a baby--
knowing nothing--
you are opening to the possibility that there is more to
explore, take in, discover, learn, embrace”
― Shellen Lubin

“As I often say,
we do have to keep re-inventing the wheel.
Why?
Because in the process of invention
is the energy and possibility of creation,
and that is where we are most available
to discovering something,
anything,
about the process,
about the results,
about ourselves.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Sometimes,
girls like her give up
on their own happiness
for the welfare
of fragile men
for several years
but oh,
the day they choose
to leave such evil souls behind
and starts to walk alone,
none in this entire universe
can stop her force
- Under construction”
― Jyoti Patel, ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS

“I am a woman who has learned repeatedly that while rock bottom feels like the end – it's always the beginning of something.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Remember that once we were all the children of tomorrow's light and hope.
Someone, somewhere dreamed of you even before you were born.
We have already met in a thousand wishes or more.

As the nights pass and the days turn into sand,
Let us remember our gentleness and the beauty of our soul.
Never forget that our faces have been kissed by a hundred Angels welcoming us into this world.

A thousand moments have flown past our eyes and with each caress of the wind, it carries a prayer, whispering...
Oh how I miss you.

Many of our tears have fallen and we have all stood with regret holding our hand and loneliness laying beside us.

Even when the distant memories come and knock at the doors of our heart,
Each one remind us of the embraces we shared with those we love.

But do not fear dear ones,
True love never dies, it lives beyond time and space, it lives forever.

Our souls will always be connected,
We now have to rise to the frequency of a higher Divine love calling our name.

And one day soon we will all be reunited in a far more beautiful and magnificent way that we could only have ever dreamed about.

So my beloved ones, take a deep breath, put your hand on your heart and embrace this moment, with courage and faith.
Turn your gaze towards the horizon of hope.
We can do this magnificent journey together with love beneath our wings.

Let us embrace love like never before and before you know it we will have flown towards each other realising that we had our wings of freedom all along.

Until we meet again...We walk in dreams.”
― Mimi Novic, Brilliance of Dawn

“It is not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“I am broken
beyond repair.

There is no going back
to the person I was before.

There is rebirth,
rebuilding,
reinventing,
and soul stitching
with gold
that needs to happen.”
― Najwa Zebian, Sparks of Phoenix

“You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

“There comes a time for healing
no matter how broken you are right now;
no matter how heavy your heart is right now.
There comes a time when you will go outside
and let the sun shine on your face
and let the wind touch your hair
and you will not be tired by just simply being awake.
There comes a time when you will be happy to be alive again
and that day you will appreciate your own being
because now you know the other side.
Now you know the opposite.
Now you know what it’s like to not be sure if you really are; who
you really are;
if you simply are, anymore.
And that day
will be the beginning of everything.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“It takes courage to forgive love and allow yourself to embrace it again, its like discovering wings you thought you've lost”
― Micheline Jean Louis

“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