Quotes About Renewal

It's daybreak. The break of day. Toby turns this word over: break, broke, broken. What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?

Poetry deals with the core of human existence: life, death, renewal, change; as well as fairness and unfairness, injustice and sometimes justice. The world in all its variety.

Death makes me hungry. Maybe it's because I've been emptied; or maybe it's the body's way of seeing to it that I remain alive.

The corrupt and blood-smeared fingerprints of the past must be wiped away to create a clean space for the morally pure generation that is surely about to arrive. Such is the theory.

Death makes me hungry. Maybe it's because I've been emptied; or maybe it's the body's way of seeing to it that I remain alive, continue to repeat its bedrock prayer: I am, I am. I am, still.

Lighting a fire is an act of renewal, of beginning, and she doesn't want to begin, she wants to continue. No: she wants to go back.

I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home.

When I start feeling shaky I lie down, expecting nothing, and it arrives, washing over me in a wave of black vacancy

Returning from the dead used to be something I did well I began asking why I began forgetting how

I don't think I've ever changed clothes so fast in my life, but once I got the silver dress off and those clothes on I began to feel more like myself.

With you I could have more than one skin, a blank interior, a repertoire of untold stories, a fresh beginning.

Remember: the neurons that fire together wire together, so you can reroute and redeem your thinking patterns.

Whatever their names or pedigree, snowdrops were something to look forward to - the earliest and bravest of the brave spring bulbs, defying the winter gloom.

This isn't the first time the world's been upside down and it won't be the last. It's happened before and it'll happen again. And when it does happen, everyone loses everything and everyone is equal. And then they all start again at taw, with nothing at all. That is, nothing except the cunning of their brains and strength of their hands.

We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy.

Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon. - Persian proverb

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.

When you are thankful in all things, all of a sudden it's a new day!

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

I'm thankful that every day I actually get to wake up.

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.