Quotes About Renewal

From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

So it was really cool just reinventing myself, changing my look, my image, my intensity, my ring-work style, everything that went along with it.

When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.

This was an act of love, pure and simple. And by taking her so slowly and gently, Merrick was wiping away all the earlier, bad memories she had of this act. Wiping them away and replacing them with beautiful memories, feelings of love and trust instead of hurt and terror and betrayal. There was no room for bad emotions here--there was only the bliss of being one with her man and it was the best feeling Elise had ever known.

Two days before she went to New York, Jacaranda stopped drinking.

The question is not: Will you die? The question is which you needs to die off, so that the new self can live and thrive in a new, loving world.

Make it new. Take me to the core of holy destruction and death and let me survive your excruciating heat. Let me throw what isn't useful into your flame. Dissolve it there and make me new, make me whole.

that "henceforth the heat of having shall never scorch him more.

Change is] the only evidence of life.

Please let me have a second chance

Francesca" You came in out of the night And there were flowers in your hands, Now you will come out of a confusion of people, Out of a turmoil of speech about you. I who have seen you amid the primal things Was angry when they spoke your name In ordinary places. I would that the cool waves might flow over my mind, And that the world should dry as a dead leaf, Or as a dandelion seed-pod and be swept away, So that I might find you again, Alone.

I have detested you long enough. I come to you now as a grown child

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

there must be a renewal of the spirit of our forefathers, an appreciation of the American way of life, a strengthening of muscle and sinew and the character of the nation. America needs guts as well as guns. National character is the core of national defense.

The purpose of the Sabbath is for spiritual uplift, for a renewal of our covenants, for worship, for prayer. It is for the purpose of feeding the spirit, that we may keep ourselves unspotted from the world by obeying God's command.

Not all change qualifies as transformation.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

A single slim trunk Branches that bow in a storm Green, leathery leaves with a soft centre Glittering against blue sky White bark scarred, bleeding Heart wide-open Bandaged, but upright she stands... (225)

We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.