Quotes About Renewal

But love was like a candle, he had told her once. No matter how many candles you light from the first candle, the flame never goes smaller unless the wick is faulty.

The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.

I don't know what to do with the space. Rain used to fill it. How do you fill empty space?

The sky, as if taking a breath, lightens.

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Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:30, 31 NIV

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 NIV

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.

But now you can't find me or reach me or hurt me ever again and once I tell the words I am going to kick you off my porch and learn to breathe again.

It is not over, this birthing. There are always newer skies into which God can throw stars.

Come mi fosse nuovo, osservo tutto. Umido aroma dei pioppi. E taccio. Taccio, pronta ad esser te di nuovo, terra.

I have much to do: I must kill my memories down to the last one, I must change my soul into stone , I must learn to live again.

Mit einem Spatz erwachte Camille Fauque aus einem tiefen Schlaf, es folgten zwei, dann drei, dann ein ganzer Vogelschwarm spöttisch dreinschauender Vögel. Sie hatte seit über einem Jahr nichts mehr gezeichnet.

Many artists find that a forced separation from their studio caused by events like sickness, vacation, or a move makes it hard to begin again.

We must save the world, one child at a time.

This is why you can with pleasure come back and back and back to a landscape; it is never the same. It is at the same time unchanging and ephemeral, timeless yet particular.

One of the best tricks a garden plays is that you never quite remember how it's going to be, that first day after winter has gone, when you go outside and can stay outside all day fiddling with jobs that aren't pressing enough to weigh heavily but will nevertheless pay dividends. A garden is made up of a thousand small inventions, but each small act is a defence (defiance even) against a world without anchors or safe harbours.

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

I am sorry you have to live in the time of terraforming, and not in the spring that follows.

As long as we tell our urban ancestors' stories, no city is ever lost. They live on, in our imaginations and on our public lands, as a promise that no matter how terrible things get, humans always try again.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

My name is Hope Wolfsong," she whispered. "I am not cs821. Not anymore. Never again.

Despair made the deserts and hope shaped the oasis.