Quotes About Renewal

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled 'the past,' and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms

In the seasons of the year, in romantic relationships, and in our walks with God, the beauty of spring doesn't come without the dormancy of winter. If we develop greater trust when it's cold and dark, we'll experience more love in the warmth of spring.

Forest is and was and will be. Root and roof and all between. Pan-fruit feed me, nid-bough hold me, Peace and Joy be ever green.

Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go.

Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness.

Forgive to be free, let go to grow like a tree.

Hope is the reason the flowers bloom.

Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.

No dirt can touch me. Like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.

The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

You are designed to reinvent and re-create yourself, over and over again. And, you are here—whether you want to acknowledge it or not; whether you even know it or not—for the evolution of your own soul.

We live in a disposable, transient-feeling world and usually after five years you go on to the next thing, maybe now even less than five years.

It was obvious that the woman was trying to turn over a new leaf, so we bought all her bowls. I got a gigantic stoneware one with a flat bottom, like you'd use if you were making bread for the whole army, and I knew I would have to change my whole life to have a use for this bowl.

I wash away negativity, opening myself up to light and love and all things good and beneficial.

Stress and pain go down the drain. Leave me feeling good again.

They would be enchanted beginners all over again, ... . That was the best thing to be in life.

I wanted my whole life so far to slip away with the rolling waves, to begin a different kind of life. But I didn't know what that meant or how to get to it

She was not ready to go home and start imitating someone she used to be.

Now he was fifty-six and the thought of getting to know a woman all over again filled him with a panic-stricken desolation.

one must destroy in order to create.

Uncle Edisto always said, "Every ending is a new beginning.

Each day, the world is made fresh again, holy, and she takes it in, in all its raw intensity, like a young child. She feels something bloom in her chest—joy or grief, eventually they are inseparable. The world is so acutely beautiful, for all its horrors, that she will be sorry to leave it.