Quotes About Renewal

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

We all make mistakes. Go and take your punishment, then come back and start again.

We all make mistakes. Go and take your punishment, then come back and start again. Do even better next time. I know you can.

I don't know. Maybe I just believe in second chances.

I always think this is the kind of place that people come back to. When they've become tired of everything else. Or when they don't have enough imagination to go anywhere else.

Spring arrived overnight, as if winter, like some unwanted guest, had abruptly shrugged its way into its coat and vanished, without saying good-bye.

A primavera chegou durante a noite, como se o inverno fosse um hóspede indesejado que de repente resolveu vestir seu casaco e desaparecer sem se despedir. Tudo ficou mais verde, as ruas foram banhadas por um sol fraco, o ar agora perfumado. O dia tinha sinais florais e acolhedores, com trinados primaveris como fundo musical. Jojo Moyes - Como eu era antes de você

and I just suddenly thought, Nope. I can't do it. I'm not going to waste a glorious Saturday doing the same thing I've done for thirty years. I'm going to have an adventure.

Sometimes you need time away to sort things out in your head. It makes everything clearer.

I always think this is the kind of place that people come back to. When they've got tired of everything else. Or when they don't have enough imagination to go anywhere else.

Verse arrojada a una nueva vida (o, al menos, lanzada con tal fuerza contra la vida de alguien que es como aplastarse la cara contra la ventana) te obliga a replantearte quién eres. O qué impresión causas a otras personas.

Nope. I can't do it. I'm not going to waste a glorious Saturday doing the same thing I've done for thirty years. I'm going to have an adventure.

I would think about myself for a change. I would let myself heal.

the first really warm day of May when the streets were full of abruptly exposed flesh and newly purchased sunglasses.

Maybe you have to think about all the things about your old life that you didn't enjoy and say, 'Okay, so here is an opportunity to start again. Perfect freedom. No ties. Maybe this is the dream.' Maybe one day you will even be happier than you were.

Varje natt på Klara Norra tillbads han och offrades, hans kropp styckades och åts, och nästa morgon återföddes han hel och levde igen.

I was astonished at how wonderful these books were; and even though I was occasionally discomforted when someone, having asked me what book I had in my pocket, looked aghast when I pulled out a copy of Heidi or Finn Family Moomintroll, I soon realized that my then-present condition of "second childhood" was not one of senility and depression but of renewal and awakening.

Oh, that God would purge away my dross, and take away my tin, and refine me seven times.

In the work of conversion, the Holy Spirit renews the heart by giving it a divine temper, and it is one and the same divine temper thus wrought in the heart, that flows out in love both to God and man.

II. Their people are an excellent and happy people. God has renewed them, and instamped his own image upon them, and made them partakers of his holiness. They are more excellent than their neighbors, Prov. xii. 26.

The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.

You come face to face with love, and before the sun sets, you've become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better. It's the reason a wolf would chase a crow, even knowing he can't fly... And she don't ever need to touch the ground. Love sends a man half way around the world... Just for the hope of catching it.

When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.

While you slept, the world changed