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Quotes About Renewal

That which is mended is but patched and can never be whole again.
~ Andrew Solomon
Every time God sent a new baby in the world, he was giving mankind another chance to make things right' Babies are a bundle of hope
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
May those who love Adonai be like the rising of the sun in its might.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
She thinks of all that will have to be done to dismantle a life.
~ Anita Shreve
What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
~ Ann Brashares
No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
~ Ann Brashares
How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn't forget?
~ Ann Brashares
People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight--at least as they normally experienced them....Some people lost their individuality in the water, but Riley always felt most herself. Water was supposed to symbolize renewal, she knew, but when Riley swam, pared down, alone, and unreachable--she felt a deeper sense of who she already was.
~ Ann Brashares
I Pantaloni ci promettevano che c'era tempo. Niente sarebbe andato perduto. Avevamo un anno intero, se ce ne fosse stato bisogno. Avevamo tutta la strada fino all'estate successiva: allora avremmo tirato fuori i Pantaloni e, insieme o separate, avremmo ricominciato da capo
~ Ann Brashares
There was a burst of enthusiasm for recycling every so often, but it usually didn't extend to the heart or the mind. It was limited to tires or bottles... What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
~ Ann Brashares
I am having a hard time throwing off the skin that I pick and peel.
~ Samantha Schutz
Where I a pris'ner chain'd, scarce freely drawThe air imprison'd also, close and damp,Unwholsome draught; but here I feel amends,The breath of heav'n fresh blowing, pure and sweet,With day-spring born; here leave me to respire.Milton'sSampson Agonistes.
~ Samuel Johnson
I need not tell you that Mr. Greville and Mr. Fenwick attended us to our first baiting; and had a genteel dinner ready provided for us: The gentlemen will tell you this, and all particulars. They both renewed their menaces of following me to London, if I stay'd above one month.
~ Samuel Richardson
A new Earth and new Heaven.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He assumed that the shape of renewal is death and resurrection.
~ Samuel Wells
Life is just the seeds of light.
~ Sandra Ingerman
Out of the pain, something new is growing.
~ Sandy Tolan
There is a winter ahead such as I think we cannot imagine, but remember that spring always follows.
~ Sara Douglass
The fat lady never really sings her last song. She only changes costumes and goes on to the next
~ Sara Gran
She walks to the window and adjusts the horizontal blinds to let in sunlight. Time to rise and shine. What for ? I grumble. Because the good Lord has seen fit to bless you with another day, she says.
~ Sara Gruen
no matter how bad things got, we could always make ourselves new again.
~ Sara Pennypacker
I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?
~ Sara Pennypacker
Or she could return to the beginning, to the first moment she`d started to feel like playing wasn`t for her anymore. But she coudn`t rehash every hurt, every disappointment, every moment that felt like betrayal. And expect to arrive anywhere good.
~ Sara Zarr
The sight of them (her friends) let a little air into her soul.
~ Sara Zarr