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Quotes About Renewal

Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
At the end of May, when the return of summer brought her a renewal of strength, they met face to face for the first time; and from that time Robert Browning was included in the small list of privileged friends who were admitted to visit her in person.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All things end, but this had been a healthy and happy part of my life, much better than the bit before.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Despite his worry, Will straightened his spine and breathed the cold scent of crunching leaves, drank deep of the welcome air of Faerie and let its strength fill him up.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Cricket-Fisher-was starting to prefer her new name. Especially the way Nouel said it, with a little twinkle, as if it were a joke shared.
~ Elizabeth Bear
In the house of dust, roll yourself in ashes.
~ Elizabeth Bear
How much of you has to die before you stop being you and become somebody else?
~ Elizabeth Bear
He has outlived two Ragnaroks and a far more human apocalypse. It is time to tear down, shed the husk, leave behind a dead world to see a new world reborn.
~ Elizabeth Bear
We feed on it, and it feeds on death." "Everything feeds on death," Mallory answered. "Especially me.
~ Elizabeth Bear
We learn to let go of our former selves, if we are to live in the world forever. Or we burn.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Tristen had been alone so long that the affectionate proximity of another organic chipped at his rough edges, like wear smoothing a rusted bearing, and what was left functioned better than the grief-etched surfaces of before.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I've come back to you for a reason, Mother of Dragons-mistress of worms and serpents, from the smallest crawlers that renew the loam to the world-girding monster devouring his own tail.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Elena put one hand out, pressing her palm to the bole of a tree to steady herself, and sighed as if she could put all her pain and worry onto the wind and let it be carried away.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Even if Rien awoke sore and sticky, it was a better awakening than the last.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Even after the end of the world, there was weeding.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Our patterns and stories, no matter how far back they go, can be surrendered and rewritten. We can walk away from them in any moment. Every choice can be change and every moment is a blank slate.
~ Elizabeth Benton
Our patterns and stories, no matter how far back they go, can be surrendered and rewritten. We can walk away from them in any moment. Every choice can be change and every moment is a blank slate. The way things have been does not have to be the way they continue to be.
~ Elizabeth Benton
Renewing cells include some types of normal cells that can divide, like immune cells; progenitor cells, which can keep dividing even longer; and those critical cells in our bodies called stem cells, which can divide indefinitely as long as they are healthy.
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
It is about five o'clock in an evening that the first hour of spring strikes — autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
One does not go into the world and come home the same: isolation has altered its nature when one returns.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
You never quite know when you may hope to repair the damage done by going away.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
She liked to scatter hope," Minerva said, taking his offering. "Pardon?" "Snowdrops. They represent hope. The first flowers in the spring. Hope for a new beginning." She took a sniff of the delicate blossoms and then shyly glanced over at him. "Perhaps you were meant to be here today. To find your hope.
~ Elizabeth Boyle
He wanted to dig a hole and put the past inside it and cover it back up again. He didn't know if flowers would grow there or not. He hoped they would.
~ Elizabeth Brundage