Quotes About Renewal

Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

It's like suddenly the canvas of my life has been cleared, and a completely new picture is painted. That's how I've been feeling ever since 'Sacred Games' was streamed.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.

There's something about putting on a new pair of shoes or a new shirt that gives you a new joy.

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.

Trinidad was an opportunity to start all over again, to have another stab at it. The mystery and atmosphere of the place have entered my palette a lot more than I thought they would.

When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

I am evergreen, and with every passing day, I am becoming younger.

Judas sought regeneration through revolution, instead of revolution through regeneration.

Leave the kitchen bright, fresh, and ready for the next meal—as if it was new, and you had not been there.

We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration

Nature ever flows, never stands still.

When you feel empty, you have to open up your heart and let the wind sweep through it.

The sorrow bird: We've gone too far. I'm afraid we can't go back. Hoopoe: Back?... There's a circle, bird. Why, just think of the phoenix. He lives alone for more than a thousand years acquiring great wisdom and when it's his time to go, he gathers leaves around himself, spreads his wings, and starts a fire - a new phoenix is born from his ashes. We're going forward, bird!

Changing the way we have lived for twenty or forty or sixty years is nothing short of a revolution. 4.

We imitate God by stopping our work and resting.

Sabbath is not dependent upon our readiness to stop.

death is a necessary prelude to resurrection. To bear long-term fruit for Christ, we need to recognize that some things must die so something new can grow.

ese día, sentados en la oficina del consejero y muy avergonzados por la situación de nuestro matrimonio, aprendimos una lección que nunca olvidaremos: aunque éramos cristianos comprometidos desde hacía casi veinte años, nuestra manera de relacionarnos reflejaba mucho más la de nuestra familia de origen, que la forma que Dios tenía pensada para su nueva familia en Cristo.

We are transferred out of darkness into the kingdom of light.

Our goal is the same: union with God in Christ, transformation into his image, and the freeing of our hearts from anything that stands in the way of Christ living in and through us.