Quotes About Renewal

Water is how time plays its notes, announcing mortal wounds, unvoiced regrets, unexpected spurts of joy. It is time's unbroken medium; it carries us. Water is alive; it remembers how it has been treated.

L'amour est une plante de printemps qui parfume tout de son espoir, même les ruines où il s'accroche.

When the first fine spring days come, and the earth awakes and assumes its garment of verdure, when the perfumed warmth of the air blows on our faces and fills our lungs, and even appears to penetrate to our heart, we feel vague longings for undefined happiness, a wish to run, to walk at random, to inhale the spring.

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

Pero cuando el sol desciende, una confusa alegría invade todo mi cuerpo. Me despierto, me animo. A medida que crece la sombra me siento distinto, más joven, más fuerte, más activo, más feliz. La veo espesarse, dulce sombra caída del cielo: ahoga la ciudad como una ola inaprensible e impenetrable, oculta, borra, destruye los colores, las formas; oprime las casas, los seres, los monumentos, con su tacto imperceptible.

Pero cuando el sol desciende, una confusa alegría invade todo mi cuerpo. Me despierto, me animo. A medida que crece la sombra me siento distinto, más joven, más fuerte, más activo, más feliz.

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

Mindst tænkte jeg da paa, at mit Livs alvorligste eventyr skulde begynde, at en Begivenhed, der engang havde beskæjftiget mig saa levende og stærk, det tabte Frøkorn, glemt og uset, nu vilde vise sig, som en grøn, duftende Væxt, der slyngede sig fast om mit eget Livstræ.

He maintained his new fastidiousness without interruption, added to it an unwonted sparkle of eye and crispness of speech, and began little by little to shed the corpulence which had so long deformed him.

Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

Tomorrow, I will continue to be. But you will have to be very attentive to see me. I will be a flower, or a leaf. I will be in these forms and I will say hello to you. If you are attentive enough, you will recognize me, and you may greet me. I will be very happy.

Erosova masinerija sastavlja i rastavlja, obnavlja u coveku zudnju za zivotom.

Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.

Fluindo na direcção da morte, a vida do homem arrastaria consigo, inevitavelmente, todas as coisas humanas para a ruína e a destruição, se não fosse a faculdade humana de interrompê-las e iniciar algo novo, faculdade inerente à acção como perene advertência de que os homens, embora devam morrer, não nascem para morrer, mas para começar.

Whoever takes upon himself political responsibility will always come to the point where he says with Hamlet: The time is out of joint: O cursed spite That ever I was born to set it right! To set the time aright means to renew the world, and this we can do because we all arrived at one time or another as newcomers in a world which was there before us and will still be there when we are gone, when we shall have left its burden to our successors.

She was overwhelmed with shame that she had so quickly acted like her old name and nature, which she had hoped was beginning to be changed already.

are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, that we may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. A real work is to be wrought in us and upon us. Besetting sins are to be conquered; evil habits are to be overcome; wrong dispositions and feelings are to be rooted out, and holy tempers and emotions are to be begotten. A

Early in the morning, a peasant, who was passing by, saw what had happened. He broke the ice in pieces with his wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. The warmth revived the poor

Roses bloom and cease to be, but we shall the Christ-child see

cracked, and then another

he needed the woods. When he was away from these trees for too long, he felt as though he was suffocating, as though his lungs were ready to completely shut down.

Well now everything dies, baby that's a fact. But maybe everything that dies, someday comes back. — Bruce Springsteen, "Atlantic City

In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.