Quotes About Newness

Julie nearly fainted when I showed up at home that night with the new Lexus. The first thing she wanted to do was drive it. I let her drive all over San Francisco with the windows rolled up, because we didn't want to lose one precious whiff of that new-car smell.

Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones." "But the new ones are so stupid and horrible.

Porque es antiguo; ésta es la razón principal. Aquí las cosas antiguas no nos son útiles. —¿Aunque sean bellas? —Especialmente cuando son bellas. La belleza ejerce una atracción, y nosotros no queremos que la gente se sienta atraída por cosas antiguas. Queremos que les gusten las nuevas.

A beleza atrai, e nós não queremos que ninguém seja atraído pelas coisas antigas. Queremos que amem as novas.

in the psychological equivalent of Australia.

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy's power, and raised up into newness of life in God.

Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.

A new time is coming both for my personal life, and the brand Ann Demeulemeester. I feel it's time to separate our paths.

Each day the first day: Each day a life.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

As our thought is opened and we behold the image of eternity within ourselves, we are changed by this image into a newness of life.

The sun had risen as usual, but nothing else about the day was the same as the day before.

As you go about your day, remember to notice something that you've never thought of being grateful for.

I had not been in love before. It was like a wheel rolling downhill.

Something stirred inside her, some urge to plunge into the new white world and see what it had to offer. It was like she'd walked out of a dusty old wardrobe and found Narnia.

Une première fois n'est neuve que de la vérité de son désir que de se vouloir miséricorde et bonté mutuelle, qu'importe une première fois

I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have: the feeling of always being at the beginning.

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.