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Quotes About Renewal

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.
~ Nina Simone
Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.
~ John Eudes
There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.
~ E. O. Wilson
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
~ L. Frank Baum
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
~ Deepak Chopra
In a time of destruction, create something.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
~ George W. Bush
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.
~ Joel Salatin
You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.
~ Jane Hirshfield
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.
~ Anatole France
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
~ John Ruskin
Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.
~ Susannah Cahalan
Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!
~ LaToya Jackson
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
~ Wendell Berry
No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
~ Saint Augustine
Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.
~ Carol Gilligan
Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.
~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.
~ George W. Bush
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
~ Boris Pasternak
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
~ Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith
Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.
~ Miguel Ruiz