Quotes About Renewal

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

You start out with one thing, endup with another, and nothing'slike it used to be, not even the future.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

Come, come, whoever you are . . . Come, even if you have broken your vows A hundred times, Come, come again, come. —RUMI

For all that, we have to realize that many revived folk songs today, in their "second existence", are probably enjoying a more vigorous life than they did in their first, restricted time, even if they are bent to different purposes.'9 Folk music had been set free to soar like the kestrel. Two years after this was printed, Lloyd was playing 'Deep Throat' consultant to Fairport Convention's revamping of folk on Liege and Lief.

Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there.

Where the first trembling rays of the morning sun gleam upon the flowers and crags and snow of Mount

The purpose of learning to work with the unconscious is not just to resolve our conflicts or deal with our neuroses. We find there a deep source of renewal, growth, strength, and wisdom. We connect with the source of our evolving character; we cooperate with the process whereby we bring the total self together; we learn to tap that rich lode of energy and intelligence that waits within.

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

When Spring has sprung... Spring with it!

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

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.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

Out of the wreck I rise.

Oh, to be in England now that April's there,And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware,That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheafRound the elm tree bole are in tiny leaf,While the chaffinch sings on the orchard boughIn England—now!

My sun sets to rise again.

Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages' way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.

John Barleycorn got up again,And sore surprised them all.

This day Time winds th' exhausted chain,To run the twelvemonth's length again.