Quotes About Renewal

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

There is no time like Spring When life's alive in everything, Before new nestlings sing, Before cleft swallows speed their journey back Along the trackless track.

All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.

The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say:Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

Now the New Year reviving old Desires,The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

despite catastrophes that defy the imagination, daily life goes on, forgetfulness seems to conquer memory, the world keeps mysteriously renewing itself.

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

We have in America "The Big Two-Hearted River" tradition: taking your wounds to the wilderness for a cure, a conversation, a rest, whatever. And as is in the Hemingway story, if your wounds aren't too bad, it works. But this isn't Michigan (or Faulkner's Big Woods in Mississippi for that matter). This is Alaska.

The failures of urban renewal reflect a failure at all levels of government to realize that people, not structures, really determine a city's success.

Shiny new real estate may dress up a declining city, but it doesn't solve its underlying problems. The hallmark of declining cities is that they have too much housing and infrastructure relative to the strength of their economies. With all that supply of structure and so little demand, it makes no sense to use public money to build more supply. The folly of building-centric urban renewal reminds us that cities aren't structures; cities are people.

The folly of building-centric urban renewal reminds us that cities aren't structures; cities are people.

Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

I know it sounds like the end of the world, but worlds are ending every day and it's not always such a bad thing.

and I rose up, and knew that I was tired, and continued my journey

Return refers not just to bringing troops out of harm's way but to complete homecoming for the whole person in body, mind, heart, and soul

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.

With the frost he kindled fire; Drove the snakes from brake and brier, Hurling out the writhing brood With the lightning of his rood.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.