Quotes About Renewal

Carve for me, O admirable artist, the pleasant cup of Spring.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves, we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Mais il s'agissait de pouvoir recommencer à aimer, non plus seulement de continuer à vivre !

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false, dangerous.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance.

La sua tendenza è sempre stata quella di saltare fuori in tempo dal conforto decrescente degli stati raggiunti, scappare verso le sorprese del nuovo o verso il vuoto rigenerante della solitudine, cancellare le nostalgie, ripartire da zero.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy. ~Jane Fonda

Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.

I'm rediscovering my backbone, which is a good start.

Typee was Melville's version of this American dream—not the dream of raising one's status in the world as it is, but the dream of starting over, getting out from under, and putting it all away to discover life anew. 6.

You will be graced by the necessary catastrophes.

what happens to most of these people anyway? They have their fling and then they vanish. They have to take jobs eventually as telephone operators, bartenders, partners in a lamp shop in some little town in the San Fernando mountains… and others take their places… but mostly they just vanish, and you forget about them unless you hear, one day, a certain song.

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.

Once you been listening to the same CD for, like, two weeks, three weeks, it get old to you. You need something new.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It's exciting!

When you do something eight times a week, you fall into those little places where sometimes things can get a bit stagnant. That's why I always welcome a new face on the stage.

We have to always think of different ways to make the show fresh for us, so that we're still having fun. That's always a challenge and we welcome it every season.

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.