Quotes About Renewal

Alex, the only one you should be giving a second chance is you.

beast may be alive and well, but my heart and soul are now leading.

Instead, we have to remember to treat every day and every moment as if it was a clean slate. Bygones—let them go. Those other spazzes were in the past. We're creating this new moment and it can go any way we want.

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.

I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

I am happy. I have a wonderful marriage. I was in a not-great second marriage for 20 years, then I fell in love with Steve, my first husband, again, and we remarried. I wore the dress from our first wedding in 1982 - it was tight, but I could get into it.

One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.

Sometimes you just need a wee bit time away from football to freshen things up.

Programmes are like weeds - they spring up, grow quickly, and then should be allowed to die quickly.

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

Some essential oils, a nice massage followed by a power nap helps me start my Sunday on the right note. After a week full of running around, this becomes the perfect rejuvenation.

I never dress the same way for a week - I'll dress like a whole other person the next week.

I still did some things in football, but I needed to get away from the game. I needed closure. And once I felt I'd achieved that, the hunger came back. That fire in your belly, the desire to feel the adrenaline at the weekend. That's when I felt I was able to go again.

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.

I think every single win, every single pole has felt new and different in its own way. I've not got bored of it.

Even great actors have to polish their skills and rejuvenate.

Love for your work, love for another person, love for yourself - love is a huge pond, and it's never empty. You can go and take from it, and it will give you strength.

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

You just have to approach every day and say, 'If you were starting fresh today, what would my portfolio look like?' So that's how we think about it.