Quotes About Renewal

A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out" (Isaiah 42:3).

This was mainly a brown country, cluttered with dead leaves from the year before, but the oaks had tasseled and the redbud limbs were like flames in the wind. Fruit trees in cabin yards, peach and pear and occasional quince, were sheathed with bloom, white and pink, twinkling against broken fields and random cuts of new grass washed clean by the rain.

Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.

Instead, I woke early the next morning, before sunrise, and went out into the world. I walked past my car. I stepped onto the pavement, still warm from the previous day's sun. I started walking. In bare feet, I traveled upriver toward the place where I was born and will someday die. At that moment, if you had broken open my heart you could have looked inside and seen the thin white skeletons of one thousand salmon.

At what point do we just re-create the people who have disappeared from our lives?

But now I want it to pour. I want it to storm. I want to be clean.

There's always time to change your life.

Kissing Storm made her feel like a weed that had never known anything but drought and his lips were a summer rain, flooding her with a life energy that pushed her to grow.

Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn't see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over.

Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.

I just don't want to forget this first day of the rest of my life!

When our attention is on the present, our life is constantly renewed.

The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself.

The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.

Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains, Draughts of life to me.

Being the new guy's always great because you get to go in fresh with your own choices and you get to bring new life and breath and a new energy into something that's already established.

I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

My life closed twice before its close

There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.

Life ends with the previous thought It is resurrected with the subsequent One

During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.