Quotes About Renewal

The hope for homecoming is constitutive of the human condition. Like grass rising through cement, it will irrepressibly emerge and animate human action against all odds.

Let's see you reconstitute yourself from dogshit!

a piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.

Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.

Feldenkrais Method. His core insight: When we go through periods of turmoil, our bodies share the brunt. To create new selves, we have to create new ways of moving. We have to tweak how we walk, sit, stand, lie, dance, even have sex. We have to rewrite the story not just of our lives, but of our bodies.

forceful burst of change in one's life that leads to a period of upheaval, transition, and renewal.

Here is the amazing thing: the caterpillar and the butterfly have the exact same DNA. They are the same organism but are receiving and responding to a different organizing signal.

You who are on the inside, this world terrifies you because, according to you, it's 'without a divine master'. But don't you see that it's also without a human master? You who are on the outside, this call for renewal of 'God' horrifies you because, according to you, it would bring back the old tyranny of the divine. Don't you see that this world is forever without a creator?

and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive

Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.

Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish.

A cross centered life is made up of Christ centered days.

Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired.

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

In my end is my beginning. —T. S. Eliot

Shad pointed to the book on the cocktail table. 'The guy in this story, he turns into a motherfucking centipede. Wakes up one morning and bingo! He's a bug. Sounds asinine, but it sure makes you think. People change overnight, they're not careful.

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers; I remember all you forget. I will die as many times as you make me over again.

BRICK: Well, they say nature hates a vacuum, Big Daddy. BIG DADDY: That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future) is not wholly determined by the past; God does bring the new into existence. [...] God also creates in and through creaturely activity.

I've said this before, Lord, but I'm so sorry for all the stupid choices I've made. I want to start over, with your guidance. I can't afford to make mistakes now. Will you turn up the volume on your voice, and turn mine down? Will you give me that wisdom you promised if we ask?

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.

When much is taken, something is returned.