Quotes About Renewal

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture's relationship to nature.

It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.

The sun sinks to rise again; the day is swallowed up in the gloom of night, to be born out of it, as fresh as if it had never been quenched.

El sol se esconde para alzarse de nuevo, el día es engullido por la oscuridad de la noche para nacer de ella, tan puro como si nunca se hubiera apagado.

Life Begins at Forty.

Ah! I intended never never to grow old … Listen: New Year's Bell!

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

In a short time God began to manifest His power and soon the building could not contain the people. Now the meetings continue all day and into the night and the fire is kindling all over the city and surrounding towns. Proud, well-dressed preachers come in to "investigate." Soon their high looks are replaced with wonder, then conviction comes, and very often you will find them in a short time wallowing on the dirty floor, asking God to forgive them and make them as little children.

Daffodils,That come before the swallow dares, and takeThe winds of March with beauty.

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

I'll break my staff,Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,And, deeper than did ever plummet sound,I'll drown my book.

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

And ruin'd love, when it is built anew,Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

[W]ell-apparell'd April on the heel Of limping winter treads...

From you have I been absent in the spring,When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

See, where she comes apparell'd like the spring.

More matter for a May morning.

To purge melancholy.

Then comes in the sweet o' the year.

The Dream Of Now" When you wake to the dream of now from night and its other dream, you carry day out of the dark like a flame. When spring comes north and flowers unfold from earth and its even sleep, you lift summer on with your breath lest it be lost ever so deep. Your life you live by the light you find and follow it on as well as you can, carrying through darkness wherever you go your one little fire that will start again.

A Fourth Turning lends people of all ages what is literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to heal (or destroy) the very heart of the republic.

In America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.