Quotes About Renewal

I was in a comfortable situation, I was on tour, it was cool, but it wasn't at all what I wanted to do. So I had to leave it, start over. My friends were like, 'You were doing something, now you're back at day one.' So people kind of look at you different when you start over. Everyone needs to challenge themselves like that.

The dead can't change, but you can.

Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

I keep feeling I constantly debut every two years.

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

Everyone deserves second chances.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

As long as a character doesn't die, the character can always come back.

I feel like I died as a child.

The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.

When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

Even a cup of coffee tastes so much sweeter because you've come once again out of the, literally, out of the edge of death, and that's the condition I suppose that a lot of artists and writers would like to be in.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts.

Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews itself every year - it's a renewable resource.

It's always exciting to get back out there with the teammates and start a new year and get on the field.

As your mind is renewed by the Spirit of Truth, you will not see relationships as opportunities to take from others, but to give.

Neither does He call man to observe Sabbaths simply for a cessation of labor, but rather for the purpose of drawing near to Him from whom our true sustenance comes.

Rather than act like a victim who cannot do anything about myself or my circumstance, today I start the process of acknowledging my sin and removing these attitudes, actions, and sins that are unworthy of the new creation I am today in Christ. I can be free, and I will be free. I will be ALL that God intended for me to be!