Quotes About Renewal

It would seem that mythological worlds have been built up only to be shattered again, and that new worlds were built from the fragments.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

When she died, she went on teaching me—about loss and grief… and about the renewal of hope and joy.

The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted

idea of beginning afresh had always attracted him more than the notion of carrying on indefinitely.

Changing your birth name is like divorcing your Self from Your Divine Plan.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

When we join ourselves to Christ, when we believe in him and follow him as Lord, his life flows into us like a transfusion of blood into a weak patient.

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

And you?" "Oh, I will go back to Century House and start again. And go back each night to my small flat and listen to my music and eat my baked beans. And you will go back to Nikki, my friend, and hold her very tight, and write your books and forget all this. Hamburg, Vienna, Malta, Tripoli, Cyprus—forget it. It's all over.

Delve in! The year's before us; Spring's promise fills the air. Descendants of Antæus, The brown earth's touch can free us, Renew us and restore us, From the hand o' carking care.

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place

Not the day only, but all things have their morning.

Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse et tout se remplace (Everything passes, everything weary, everything breaks and everything replaced).

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.

The light shall always rise upon thee after the darkness; and after sorrow, joy shall again visit thy threshold. Nor

Just as firewood does not become firewood again after it is ash, you do not return to birth after death.

Firewood becomes ash and doesn't go back to being firewood again. But we shouldn't think of firewood as its past and ash as its future. Both firewood and ash have their own position in time and space. The past and future are cut off. Firewood and ash each have their own past and their own future. Just as ash doesn't go back to being firewood, human beings, when they die, don't come back to life again.

just because you have achieved something many times doesn't mean you won't have to prove yourself again.

One must die at the present level to be reborn onto a higher plane not just in the physical state, but also in the conscious and emotional state.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.