Quotes About Renewal

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

I'm going to be doing solo stuff. The idea is to do 'small' and 'off my beaten path,' or go back to an old, beaten path - do some smaller things that I haven't done in 15 or 20 years. Just to sort of get my feet wet, because I haven't done my own material for a couple of years - I've been doing a lot of other things.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

Despite humans killing off whales as much as they could, give it time and they come back. If we give nature a chance, it will regenerate.

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

The wheel goes round and round and comes back, and opportunities are given again. You just have to remember that.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

My bedroom is the place where I wake up to a fresh start each and every day, so it was important that it felt calming.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it.

Wherever and whenever God is moving in a new and fresh way, there emerges a new song!

I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in.

It's always good to change and keep things fresh, whether it's a hairstyle or wardrobe.

I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle.

I faded away for a while out of necessity.

Sometimes it helps to take a couple days off, as weird as that sounds. Every once in a while, I could just shoot so many shots. You can get so, like, intense with it all. It's like in life, right? We're all created for a sabbath day or for a day of rest. You sometimes need that in shooting, too.

When I left 'Being Human,' that was painful because the show was going on without me. But with 'Him & Her,' we finished on such a high together that if it is the end, it couldn't have stopped at a better time. But I hope with 'Him & Her' that we'll get another crack of the whip: that the writer might change his mind and write some more.