Quotes About Renewal

She had not imagined that she would be so fertilized by a human being again.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. Even then?

Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins. This book has been written to examine some of the ways love heals and helps a person to climb impossible heights and rise from immeasurable depths.

Every storm runs out of rain.

Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain Fall softly, dewdrops And cool my brow again. Storm, blow me from here With your fiercest wind Let me float across the sky 'Til I can rest again. Fall gently, snowflakes Cover me with white Cold icy kisses and Let me rest tonight. Sun, rain, curving sky Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone Star shine, moon glow You're all that I can call my own.

She worked the thread through the flowered cloth as if she were sewing the torn ends of her life together.

we begin to stop in order simply to begin again.

Sometimes second chances are the very best chances," she whispered. "Because this time we'll get it right.

She's told me on multiple occasions that I don't have to always stay the person I was, that I can change and be whoever I want to be.

Yes, storms are damaging, but we need them because they clear away the bracken that prevents new flowers from having a chance to grow. And of course we need the sun to shine on those new flowers that without the storm might never have had a chance to bloom.

Rule #12 We all make mistakes, and we all deserve a second chance.

Choose life, Ki. Choose it one more time.

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

There's a place in the soul where you've never been wounded.

Rest when you're tired. Take a break when life stales. Take time to recharge your battery. Energy isn't something you have—it's something you are. To give and give and give, to put out without taking in, depletes your battery. It drains you, runs you down.

Taking time to rest, renew, and refresh yourself isn't wasted time. Recharge. Choose what energizes you.

Don't let the heartbreaks of the past cause you to become cynical, close you off to life's magic and promise. Open yourself wide to all that the universe has to say. Let yourself begin anew.

We go back . . . and back . . . and back . . . until we discover the exuberant, unencumbered, delightful and lovable child that was, and still is, in us. And once we find it, we love and cherish it, and never, never let it go.

Cherish the hope that lies beneath the snow.