Quotes About Renewal

God made beauty and love from ashes.

The classic 'seven-year itch' may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.

I was not born for death and yet I have died a thousand times, he thought. And now I am born again for these hard times.

Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy.

Thank you for a lovely weekend. They tell me it rained.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower," wrote Dylan Thomas

Fire, by its nature, both creates and destroys.

Failure: the renewable resource.

The dead do not become stars or ghosts. in fact, they are hardly undone. Soon their randomly dispersed parts reappear one by one on foreign hosts- the beloved ear or freckled arm, separate as a milagro or bracelet charm. It is not grotesque, though odd. Even a piece does us some good. "Charms

In the morning when the Sun returns. It's possible for us to hope.

The giant, once well buried, now stirs. When soon he rises

The Giant, once well buried, now stirs.

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

What should we do?" "If you want to live, you should go to church, confess your sins, pray, and lead a better life.

It looked, she thought, as if the hand of God had come down over England and struck the earth, destroying everything men had made except churches.

haven, a place to rest and get clean and whole

Among monks generally there was a long-standing movement for reform of old institutions that had slipped into idleness and self-indulgence.

y eso le hacía sentirse un hombre nuevo, una criatura diferente, un ave del cielo.

Nada es perdurable, salvo el cambio.

Itt az Å'sz, járt a fejemben, itt az Å'sz. Mintha most elÅ'ször volna itt, fura dolog. ?sz. Még nem is olyan régen tavasz volt, aztán nyár, most meg Å'sz – fura csakugyan.

There is an inflow of vital power, which is received by all living organisms during sleep ..... this vital energy is the only power by which the body may be healed, repaired, renewed or maintained

Fasting is truly a secret source of power.

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.