Quotes About Renewal

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.

There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

When I turned 30, I knew my life was at a crossroads. It was either over, or I was going to restart.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.

Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

Life alone can rekindle life.

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.

Life gives you an endless supply of do-overs.

It was time to move on, to dance with life again.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

Recovery is an important word and a vital concept. It means renewal of life and energy. Knowing how and when to recover may prove to be the most important skill in your life.

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.